Acts 8:1-3

Evangelical Heritage Version

8 Saul agreed with putting Stephen to death.

On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria. ² Godly men buried Stephen, and they mourned deeply for him.

³ But Saul was trying to destroy the church by going into one house after another, dragging off both men and women, and putting them in prison.