Related commentaries – Persecution

Stephen Summoned before Synagogue Leaders – Acts 6:8 – 6:15

Early Church Persecution from Within – (R.C. Sproul)

"The reality in the first century was that the most intense persecution of the Christian church came, not from the Romans, but from the Jewish community. The Romans and the outside world viewed the Christian Community as merely a small sect of Judaism. Christianity did not spread globally and become a world religious force until after Jerusalem was destroyed and the Jewish people were scattered among the nations.” (R.C. Sproul, The Last Days According to Jesus, p. 95).