Thematic Bible: By the witnesses
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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.
When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."
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.
When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul. They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"