Thematic Bible: By the witnesses
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Let the witnesses be the first to begin executing them, then the rest of the people shall follow. By doing this you will purge evil from among you."
When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and told them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
But you must surely execute him. You must be the first to put him to death with your own hand, and then the hands of the whole community.
ran him outside of the city, and began to stone him to death. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. As they continued to stone Stephen, he kept praying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"