{"id":6985,"date":"2018-06-11T09:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=oyb&#038;p=6985"},"modified":"2018-06-11T09:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:02:55","slug":"saul-was-one-of-the-witnesses-and-he-agreed-completely-with-the-killing-of-stephen-acts-81-nlt","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/saul-was-one-of-the-witnesses-and-he-agreed-completely-with-the-killing-of-stephen-acts-81-nlt","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Saul was one of the witnesses, and he agreed completely with the killing of Stephen&#8221; (Acts 8:1 NLT)."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"c6eth\" data-offset-key=\"as9o0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"as9o0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"as9o0-0-0\">STEPHEN&#8217;S TESTIMONY TO SAUL<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"c6eth\" data-offset-key=\"54f04-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"54f04-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"54f04-0-0\">I wonder how often Saul thought of Stephen. Certainly, Saul, who was called Paul after his conversion, often mentioned Stephen in his testimony (See Acts 22:20). Perhaps Stephen&#8217;s final words of forgiveness haunted Saul, but later inspired Paul. Stephen&#8217;s ministry may have been short-lived, but it no doubt motivated Paul and other believers to be bold about preaching the gospel no matter the consequence.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEPHEN&#8217;S TESTIMONY TO SAUL<br \/>\nI wonder how often Saul thought of Stephen. Certainly, Saul, who was called Paul after his conversion, often mentioned Stephen in his testimony (See Acts 22:20). Perhaps Stephen&#8217;s final words of forgiveness haunted Saul, but later inspired Paul. Stephen&#8217;s ministry may have been short-lived, but it no doubt motivated Paul and other believers to be bold about preaching the gospel no matter the consequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1311],"scripture-chapter":[1341],"oyb_day":[1689],"location":[],"class_list":["post-6985","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-acts","scripture-chapter-1341","oyb_day-june-11"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/6985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=6985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}