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Text -- Acts 8:1-3 (NET)

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Saul Begins to Persecute the Church
8:1 And Saul agreed completely with killing him. Now on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria. 8:2 Some devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him. 8:3 But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · Judea a region that roughly corresponded to the earlier kingdom of Judah
 · Samaria residents of the district of Samaria
 · Saul the sixth king of Edom,son of Simeon and a Canaanite woman,son of Uzziah of Kohath son of Levi
 · Stephen the man who became the first Christian martyr


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Church | Stephen | Intolerance | Jerusalem | Paul | Persecution | Burial | MARK, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO, 2 | Character | HEBREWS, EPISTLE TO THE | JOHN THE APOSTLE | PHILIP, THE EVANGELIST | HALE; HALING | Saul | Prison | Mourn | ABROAD | APOSTOLIC AGE | FEAR | CHURCH GOVERNMENT | more
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NET Notes: Act 8:1 Or “countryside.”

NET Notes: Act 8:2 Or “mourned greatly for him.”

NET Notes: Act 8:3 BDAG 762 s.v. παραδίδωμι 1.b has “εἰς φυλακή ...

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