And they rose up and cast him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down the cliff.

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to sanctify the people through his own blood.

The witnesses

They put forward false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking against this holy place, and the law;

Their

Saul was consenting to his death. And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the region of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prison both men and women,

General references

The Jews took up stones again to stone him.

But Saul began ravaging the church, and, entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.