The two villains arrived and sat opposite him. Then the villains testified against Naboth right before the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they dragged him outside the city and stoned him to death.

They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.

Therefore, to sanctify the people by his own blood, Jesus also suffered outside the camp.

The witnesses

They brought forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Their

And Saul agreed completely with killing. Now on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest

I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

General references

The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.