For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”

They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!