and casting him out of the city, stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul,

and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was poured out, I also stood by and consented, and kept the clothes of those that killed him.

Against an elder receive not an accusation, except by two or three witnesses.

Any one who despised the law of Moses died without mercy by two or three witnesses;

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

I, John, your brother and companion in the affliction and kingdom and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

I know your works and where you live; where Satan's throne is; and you hold my name, and did not deny my faith in the days in which Antipas my faithful martyr was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those killed for the word of God and for the testimony which they had.

And I will give charge to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy twelve hundred and sixty days [three years and a half] clothed with sackcloth.

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and the word of God, and who did not worship the beast nor his image and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their right hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years;