Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
Martyr
Consenting
Bible References
Martyr
Revelation 2:13
I know where you dwell, where Satan sits enthroned, and yet you adhere to my Name, you have not renounced your faith in me even during the days when my witness, my faithful Antipas, was martyred in your midst ??where Satan dwells.
Revelation 17:6
Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and as I looked at her I marvelled greatly.
Stephen
Acts 7:58
Putting him outside the city, they proceeded to stone him (the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a youth called Saul).
Acts 8:1
(Saul quite approved of his murder.) That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone, with the exception of the apostles, was scattered over Judaea and Samaria.
Consenting
Luke 11:48
thus you testify and consent to what your fathers did, for they killed and you build.
Romans 1:32
though they know God's decree that people who practise such vice deserve death, they not only do it themselves but applaud those who practise it.