Acts 8:2-4

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²(But some godly Jews^[a] came and with great sorrow buried Stephen.) ³Paul was like a wild man, going everywhere to devastate the believers, even entering private homes and dragging out men and women alike and jailing them.

⁴But the believers^[b] who had fled Jerusalem went everywhere preaching the Good News about Jesus!

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Footnotes

Acts 8:2 godly Jews, literally, “devout men.” It is not clear whether these were Christians who braved the persecution, or whether they were godly and sympathetic Jews.
Acts 8:4 the believers, literally, “the church.”

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