having delivered him from the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be overpower'd by it.

for some time ago one Theudas started up, pretending to be something extraordinary, who was join'd indeed by about four hundred men: but he was no sooner put to death, than his followers all dispers'd, and were reduc'd to nothing.

thereupon he went out of Chaldea, and dwelt in Charran: from thence, after his father's death, he removed him to this very country where you now dwell.

and Saul was accessory to his death. At that time the persecution was so violent against the church at Jerusalem, they were all dispers'd through the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles,

we are witnesses of all his transactions, both in Judea, and at Jerusalem. however, they put him to death, even that of the cross.

although they could not convict him of any thing capital, yet they demanded of Pilate, that he should be put to death.

for I persecuted this sect even to death, throwing them into chains and prisons both men and women:

but finding he had done nothing that deserv'd death, I have resolved to send him to the emperor, to whom he had appealed.

where numbers of converts I threw into jail, by warrant from the high priests: and when they were put to death, I myself was an accomplice.

they declar'd to one another, "this man has done nothing that deserves either death or imprisonment:"

the barbarians seeing the venomous creature hang fast to his hand, said to one another, this man is a murderer, no doubt; for, escaped from the wreck, the divine justice still pursues him to death.