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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 7:58 - 7:58
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cast him out of the city - according to Lev 24:14; Num 15:35; 1Ki 21:13; and see Heb 13:12.
and stoned - “proceeded to stone” him. The actual stoning is recorded in Act 7:59.
and the witnesses - whose hands were to be first upon the criminal (Deu 17:7).
laid down their clothes - their loose outer garments, to have them taken charge of.
at a young man’s feet whose name was Saul - How thrilling is this our first introduction to one to whom Christianity - whether as developed in the New Testament or as established in the world - owes more perhaps than to all the other apostles together! Here he is, having perhaps already a seat in the Sanhedrim, some thirty years of age, in the thick of this tumultuous murder of a distinguished witness for Christ, not only “consenting unto his death” (Act 8:1), but doing his own part of the dark deed.