Acts 8:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 23:2 : 2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
  • Gen 50:10-11 : 10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days. 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, the name of it was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
  • Num 20:29 : 29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
  • Deut 34:8 : 8 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
  • 1 Sam 28:3 : 3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
  • 2 Sam 3:31 : 31 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.
  • 2 Chr 32:33 : 33 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come]. 2 He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
  • Jer 22:10 : 10 Don't you weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
  • Jer 22:18 : 18 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not lament for him, [saying], Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall not lament for him, [saying] Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
  • Luke 2:25 : 25 Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
  • John 11:31-35 : 31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there." 32 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died." 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 34 and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus wept.
  • Acts 2:5 : 5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.
  • Acts 10:2 : 2 a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

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    1 Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

  • Acts 5:6
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    6 The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.

  • Acts 7:57-60
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    57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

    58 They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

    59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit!"

    60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.

  • Acts 6:8-10
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    8 Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

    9 But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

    10 They weren't able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

  • Acts 8:3-4
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    3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.

    4 Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

  • Acts 22:19-20
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    19 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

    20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'

  • Acts 6:5-6
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    5 These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;

    6 whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

  • Acts 14:19
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    19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

  • Acts 5:10-11
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    10 She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

    11 Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

  • Acts 9:39
    68%

    39 Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

  • Acts 14:5
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    5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

  • 1 Kgs 13:30
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    30 He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, [saying], Alas, my brother!

  • 1 Chr 10:12
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    12 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

  • Acts 4:2
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    2 being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

  • Mark 6:29
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    29 When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.

  • Acts 2:29
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    29 "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

  • 2 Sam 1:12
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    12 and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

  • Acts 22:4
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    4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

  • Acts 9:1-2
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    1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

    2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

  • Acts 11:19
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    19 They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

  • Acts 9:37
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    37 It happened in those days that she fell sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper chamber.

  • 1 Sam 31:12
    66%

    12 all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

  • Luke 23:27
    65%

    27 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

  • Acts 26:10
    65%

    10 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

  • 2 Sam 3:31-32
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    31 David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

    32 They buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

  • Acts 11:24
    65%

    24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

  • Acts 6:12
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    12 They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

  • Matt 27:60
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    60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

  • Heb 11:37
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    37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

  • Acts 21:35
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    35 When he came to the stairs, it happened that he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;

  • Acts 13:29
    65%

    29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

  • Acts 13:50
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    50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

  • Acts 20:37
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    37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,

  • Acts 15:3
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    3 They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.{The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}

  • Acts 5:33
    64%

    33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.

  • Matt 14:12
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    12 His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.

  • Luke 7:12
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    12 Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

  • 2 Sam 2:5
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    5 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, Blessed be you of Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.

  • Acts 2:5
    64%

    5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.