The next verse tells us one effect of the havoc wrought by Saul:Īcts 8:4. When they are converted, they bring great glory to God. I like these thoroughgoing men they are worth saving.
When he persecuted, he did it with all his might and when he became converted, then he preached with all his might. He was always earnest in whatever he did. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.Īt first, we can hardly believe that this was the very man who afterwards became the greatest preacher of the gospel, and the builder up of the Church of Christ, but it was even so. He was one of the best workers for Christ of that day and when he was thus put to death by the judicial murder of stoning, the devout men who were spared to mourn his loss «made great lamentation over him.»Īcts 8:3. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentations over him.Īs well they might, for his death was a serious loss to the Church. They all did so, except the apostles, who were specially cared for by divine providence.Īcts 8:2. Saul, having tasted blood in the murder of Stephen, became more and more furious in his persecution of the Church of Christ at Jerusalem, and the brethren had to escape for their lives. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem, and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles. Stephen had been stoned to death but with his latest breath he prayed for his murderers.
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