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and so on and so forth.
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Look at 8:1: " And Saul approved of their killing him.
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That day a severe persecution began against the church in
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Jerusalem all except the apostles were scattered
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throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria,
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devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over
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him, but Saul was ravaging the
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church by entering house after house,
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dragging off both men and women, he committed them to prison."
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So Saul, as he's known here, is fairly active in Jerusalem
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as a persecutor of the followers of Jesus.
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He causes several of them to be arrested,