And cast him out of the city. This was in accordance with the usual custom. In Leviticus 24:14, it was directed to bring forth him tha…

And stoned him.—Literally, were stoning him. The verb is repeated in Acts 7:59, as if to show that the shower of stones w…

There is a progression in Luke’s portrayals of the trial scenes of 4: 1ff., 5:17ff., and here, with the first ending in threatenings (4:17, 21), th…

They stoned. God had appointed this kind of punishment in the Law for false prophets, as it is written in Deuteronomy 13; but God also def…

And cast him out of the city
Of Jerusalem; for the place of stoning was without the city. The process, when regular, …

Nothing is as comforting to dying saints, or as encouraging to suffering saints, as seeing Jesus at the right hand of God. Blessed be God, by faith…