Acts 7:58

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Events

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• Stephen is stonedc. AD 31

Related verses

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• Acts 22:20
  And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and watching over the garments of those who killed him.’
• Acts 8:1
  And Saul was there, giving approval to Stephen’s death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
• Leviticus 24:14–16
  “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.
• Acts 6:13
  …where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
• Luke 4:29
  They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.
• 1 Kings 21:13
  And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
• Acts 22:4
  I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,
• Deuteronomy 13:9–10
  Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
• Deuteronomy 17:7
  The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.
• Numbers 15:35
  And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”
• Hebrews 13:12–13
  And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
• Acts 9:1–19
  Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest

People

Paul: Apostle to the Gentiles, author of many NT epistles

Glossary

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Apocalypse of James· Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament)· Book of the Acts of the Apostles· Courts and Trials· Criminal Law and Punishment· Hellenism· Jerusalem Council· Paul the Apostle· Persecution· Peter, the Apostle· Sanhedrin· Stephen· Stoning

Topics

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Anger: Jews, Against Stephen· Complicity: Paul, in the Stoning of Stephen· Courts of Justice: The Judgment of Witnesses First to Execute· Gates: Punishment of Criminals Outside of· Government: Constitutes· Homicide: Felonious: Sanhedrin· Martyrdom: Stephen· Paul: Persecutes the Christians; Present At, and Gives Consent To, the Stoning of Stephen· Punishment: Death Penalty: Executed by the Accusing Witnesses· Punishments were Inflicted by the Witnesses· Religious Intolerance: The Jewish Leaders in Persecuting Stephen· Revenge by the Chief Priests· Stephen: Stoned· Witness: Required to Throw the First Stone in Executing the Sentence