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The Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament surveys each book of the New Testament at several levels—Book, Division, Section, Pericope, Paragraph, and Unit—providing contextually appropriate commentary on each level. The reader of the commentary can easily ascertain the contextual importance of any larger section, or pericope, or even a particular verse of Scripture.

(8:1–3) This paragraph identifies Saul’s (also known as Paul, 13:9) complicity in Stephen’s stoning. Saul is not only present (7:58), but he approved of the mob’s killing of Stephen and emerges as a zealous persecutor of the Jerusalem church (8:1). House by house, Saul seizes and imprisons women and men while Stephen’s body is being buried (8:2–3). Because of the persecution of the Jerusalem church, Philip (and others) flee to the Judean diaspora (8:4). 8:1 Luke describes
Acts 8:1–3
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