On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. 2 Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. 3 But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison. A new division in Luke’s material begins at this point. The previous seven chapters of Acts described the success of the gospel in Jerusalem, largely
Acts 8:1b–3