Was consenting (ην συνευδοκων). Periphrastic imperfect of συνευδοκεω, a late double compound (συν, ευ, δοκεω) that well describes …

CHAPTER VIII

And Saul was consenting, etc. He was pleased with Stephen's death and approved it. . This part of the verse should hav…

And Saul was consenting to his death.—The word seems carefully chosen to convey the fact that he did not himself take part in the …

Saul, having tasted blood in the murder of Stephen, became more and more furious in his persecution of the Church of Christ at Jerusalem, and the b…

(1a) Again, as in 7:58, Luke makes the point that Saul was present at Stephen’s death and approved of it. Because the verb “to give approval” (GK 5…

At that day. The persecution began with Stephen. After that, when their madness was ignited by this, it grew intense against everyone. For…

And Saul was consenting unto his death
This clause, in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Ethiopic versions, stan…

Though persecution must not drive us from our work, yet it may send us to work elsewhere. Wherever the established believer is driven, he carries t…