Was Stephen lynched in Acts?<\/p>\n\t
“Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul<\/em>” (Acts 7:57-58).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: Was Stephen lynched in Acts? Answer: “Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul” (Acts 7:57-58).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[144,864],"class_list":["post-21975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-acts","tag-stephen"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7638,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/at-what-gate-was-stephen-stoned\/","url_meta":{"origin":21975,"position":0},"title":"At what gate was Stephen stoned?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: At what gate was Stephen stoned? 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