3As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
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Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)In these verses we have, I. Something more concerning Stephen and his death; how people stood affected to it—variously, as generally in such cases, according to men’s different sentiments of things. Christ had said to his disciples, when he was parting with them (John 16:20), You shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice . Accordingly here is, 1. Stephen’s death rejoiced in by one—by many…
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