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==Main article=After-effects of Stephen's death===
Acts reveals that great persecution arose after Stephen was a Christian whose story is told in the [[Book of Acts]]. He was stoned to 's death for his beliefs, described in [[Acts 7]]. The Saul (later the [[apostle Paul]] (Saul) was present at Stephen's death, giving approval to itone of the main perpetrators of this violence. Following his death, the Believers (probably predominantly Hellenistic Jews of ) left Jerusalem to escape the early church became dispersed throughout Judeapersecution, Samaria and their Diaspora homelands, taking the gospel travelled with them, for example, to cities such as [[Antioch]]. ===Death So this persecution resulted in expansion of Stephen===the early church.
==Quotes==
[[Oscar Cullmann]]
: Apart from Paul, Stephen was perhaps the most significant man in the early church. It seems he grasped what was new in Jesus’ thought better than almost anyone else.
==Video==
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