ACTS 22:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.”
'And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing by approving, and watching over the coats of those who were slaying him' — Paul explicitly owns his complicity in Stephen's martyrdom; he was present at the death of the first Christian martyr. The mention of Stephen's blood foreshadows Paul's own blood-shedding.
Church Fathers on Acts 22:20
See how he thrusts himself (into danger), I came, he says, after that vision, to Jerusalem. I was in a trance, etc. Again, this is without witness: but observe, the witness follows from the result. He said, They will not receive your testimony: they did not receive it. And yet from calculations of reason the surmise should have been this, that they would assuredly receive him. For I was the man that made war upon the Christians: so that they ought to have received him. Here…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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