SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:58
y echndolo fuera de la ciudad, le apedrearon; y los testigos pusieron sus vestidos a los pies de un joven que se llamaba Saulo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 7:58
Verse 58. Cast him out of the city, and stoned him] They did not however wait for any sentence to be pronounced upon him; it seems they were determined to stone him first, and then prove, after it had been done, that it was done justly. For the manner of stoning among the Jews, see the note on Lev. xxiv. 23. The witnesses laid down their clothes] To illustrate this whole transaction, see the observations at the end of this chapter.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 58. And cast him out of the city , etc.] Of Jerusalem; for the place of stoning was without the city. The process, when regular, according to the sentence of the court, was after this manner f376 ; judgment being finished, (or the trial over,) they brought him out (the person condemned) to stone him; the place of stoning was without the sanhedrim, as it is said, ( Leviticus 24:14) bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp, when he was ten cubits distant from the place of stoning, they order him to confess and when four cubits from it, they take off his garments the place of stoning was twice a mans height.
And elsewhere it is said, that the place of stoning was without three camps (the camp of the Shekinah, the camp of the Levites, and the camp of the Israelites): upon which the gloss has these words; the court is the camp of the Shekinah, and the mountain of the house the camp of the Levites, and every city the camp of the Israelites; and in the sanhedrim in every city, the place of stoning was without the city like to Jerusalem.
And these men, though transported with rage and fury, yet were so far mindful of rule, as to have him out of the city before they stoned him: and they stoned him ; which was done after this manner, when in form f378 : the wise men say, a man was stoned naked, but not a woman; and there was a place four cubits from the house of stoning, where they plucked off his clothes, only they covered his nakedness before.
The place of stoning was two mens heights, and there he went up with his hands bound, and one of the witnesses thrust him on his loins, that he might fall upon the earth; and if he died not at that push, the witnesses lifted up a stone, which lay there, the weight of two men, and one cast it with all his strength upon him; and if he died not, he was stoned by all Israel. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young mans feet, whose name was Saul ; for the witnesses, according to the above account, were first concerned in the stoning; and this was agreeably to the rule in ( Deuteronomy 17:7) and which they seem to have observed amidst all their hurry and fury: and that they might perform their work with more ease and expedition, they plucked off their upper garments, and committed them to the care of Saul of Tarsus; who was now at Jerusalem, and belonged to the synagogue of the Cilicians, that disputed with Stephen, and suborned false witnesses against him. He is called a young man; not that he was properly a youth, for he must be thirty years of age, or more; since about thirty years after this he calls himself Paul the aged, ( Philemon 1:9) when he must be at least sixty years of age, if not more; besides, Ananias calls him a man, ( Acts 9:13) nor would the high priests have given letters to a mere youth, investing him with so much power and authority as they did; but he is so called, because he was in the prime of his days, hale, strong, and active. The learned Alting has taken a great deal of pains to show, that this Saul, who was afterwards Paul the apostle, is the same with Samuel the little, who is frequently mentioned in the Talmud; he living at this time, and being a disciple of Rabban Gamaliel, and a bitter enemy of the heretics, or Christians; and who, at the instigation of his master, composed a prayer against them; and his name and character agreeing with him: but it is not likely that the Jews would have retained so high an opinion of him to the last, had he been the same person: for they say f379 , that as the elders were sitting in Jabneh, Bath Kol came forth, and said, there is one among you fit to have the Holy Ghost, or the Shekinah, dwell upon him; and they set their eyes on Samuel the little; and when he died, they said, ah the holy, ah the meek disciple of Hillell!
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 54-60 - Nothing is so comfortable to dying saints, or so encouraging to suffering saints, as to see Jesus at the right hand of God: blessed be God, by faith we may see him there. Stephen offered up two shor prayers in his dying moments. Our Lord Jesus is God, to whom we are to seek, and in whom we are to trust and comfort ourselves, living an dying. And if this has been our care while we live, it will be ou comfort when we die. Here is a prayer for his persecutors. Though the sin was very great, yet if they would lay it to their hearts, God woul not lay it to their charge. Stephen died as much in a hurry as ever an man did, yet, when he died, the words used are, he fell asleep; he applied himself to his dying work with as much composure as if he ha been going to sleep. He shall awake again in the morning of the resurrection, to be received into the presence of the Lord, where i fulness of joy, and to share the pleasures that are at his right hand for evermore __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ εκβαλοντες 1544 5631 V-2AAP-NPM εξω 1854 ADV της 3588 T-GSF πολεως 4172 N-GSF ελιθοβολουν 3036 5707 V-IAI-3P και 2532 CONJ οι 3588 T-NPM μαρτυρες 3144 N-NPM απεθεντο 659 5639 V-2AMI-3P τα 3588 T-APN ιματια 2440 N-APN αυτων 846 P-GPM παρα 3844 PREP τους 3588 T-APM ποδας 4228 N-APM νεανιου 3494 N-GSM καλουμενου 2564 5746 V-PPP-GSM σαυλου 4569 N-GSM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
58. Stoned. According to the Rabbis, the scaffold to which the criminal was to be led, with his hands bound, was to be twice the size of a man. One of the witnesses was to smite him with a stone upon the breast, so as to throw him down. If he were not killed, the second witness was to throw another stone at him. Then, if he were yet alive, all the people were to stone him until he was dead. The body was then to be suspended till sunset.A young man (neaniou). Which, however, gives no indication of his age, since it is applied up to the age of forty-five. Thirty years after Stephen's martyrdom, Paul speaks of himself as the aged (Philemon 9).
Saul. The first mention of the apostle to the Gentiles.
