listening to his passionate diatribe. In a rage they drove him into the street through the northern gate to the outskirts of the city. There they pummeled him with large, jagged stones until he fell flat and died. Saul, observing the entire episode, stood among the howling mob, holding the robes of Stephen’s murderers. No doubt, he grinned with sadistic delight. Eugene Peterson in his work The Message paraphrases the scene: Yelling and hissing, the mob drowned him out. Now in full stampede, they dragged