Stephen is seen as the first Christian martyr. I've heard many sermons that the only reason they killed him was because of his faith in Jesus/Yeshua.

One of the things I didn't ever catch until I read the account myself was that wasn't what caused them to stone him. He was calling out their hypocrisy. He tells them that God gave them the Law, yet none of them follow it.

The other aspect of this account, that I am pointing out in the comic, is that many believe that Yeshua came and fulfilled the Law to the point we don't have to do it anymore. A change. This is the exact thing that they set up false witnesses to say Stephen is going around preaching. If the whole purpose of Yeshua's death and resurrection was to do away with the Law in the sense that believers in Him no longer needed to do those customs, why would Stephen's accusers need to setup false witnesses? Couldn't they just catch him preaching that very thing?

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