⁴⁸ Therefore, you are witnesses^(A) that you approve^[a](B) the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.^[b]

Saul the Persecutor

8 Saul agreed with putting him to death.

On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.^(A)

²⁰ And when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I stood there giving approval^[a] and guarding the clothes of those who killed him.’^(A)