Acts 7:58 - Adam Clarke

Acts 7:58

56 and said, “Look! ^aI see the heavens opened and the ^bSon of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord;

58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And ^athe witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

59 And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, ^areceive my spirit.”

60 Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, ^a“Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

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Acts 7:58

Cast him out of the city, and stoned him - They did not however wait for any sentence to be pronounced upon him; it seems they were determined to stone him first, and then prove, after it had been done, that it was done justly. For the manner of stoning among the Jews, see the note on Leviticus 24:23.

The witnesses laid down their clothes - To illustrate this whole transaction, see the observations at the end of this chapter.

Other Adam Clarke entries containing Acts 7:58:

Acts 7:1
Acts 7:55
Acts 9:21
Acts 22:20
Philemon 1:9

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