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Acts 8:2
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Devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.
And deuout men carried Steuen to his buriall, and made great lamentation ouer him.
Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.
Some devout men buried Stephen, and mourned loudly for him.
And some religious people buried Stephen and cried loudly for him.
Some devout men buried Stephen, and mourned greatly over him [expressing a personal sense of loss].
Some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.
And some devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.
God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.
Some godly men buried Stephen and mourned him deeply.
And pious men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.
Then certaine men fearing God, caried Steuen amongs them, to be buried, and made great lamentation for him.
And devout men picked up Stephen and buried him, and they mourned over him in great sorrow.
Some devout men buried Stephen, mourning for him with loud cries.
And devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.
And devout men together carried Stephen and made a great lamentation over him.
And devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
And God-fearing men put Stephen's body in its last resting-place, making great weeping over him.
Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.
Devout men buried Stephen as they mourned loudly for him.Genesis 23:2; 50:10; 2 Samuel 3:31;">[xr]
And faithful men laid Estephanos in his tomb, and mourned over him greatly.
And believing men gathered up and buried Stephen. And they lamented over him greatly.
And deuout men were carefull together touchyng Steuen, and made great lamentation ouer hym.
And devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.
And devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
A party of devout men, however, buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.
But good men birieden Steuene, and maden greet mornyng on hym.
And devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
And devout men carried Stephen [to his burial], and made great lamentation over him.
Some devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.
And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
(Some devout men came and buried Stephen with great mourning.)
Good men put Stephen in a grave. There was much sorrow because of him.
Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.
Howbeit reverent men assisted at the burial of Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
And devout men took order for Stephen’s funeral and made great mourning over him.
Devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
Then devout men dressed Steven aud made great lamentacion over him.
and devout men carried away Stephen, and made great lamentation over him;
As for Steuen, men yt feared God dressed him, and made greate lamentacion ouer him.
and some devout men who carried Stephen to his burial, making great lamentation over him.
Some brave men came and got Steve's body and buried it. He was mourned greatly.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
devout: Acts 2:5, Acts 10:2, Luke 2:25
made: Genesis 23:2, Genesis 50:10, Genesis 50:11, Numbers 20:29, Deuteronomy 34:8, 1 Samuel 28:3, 2 Samuel 3:31, 2 Chronicles 32:33, 2 Chronicles 35:25, Isaiah 57:1, Isaiah 57:2, Jeremiah 22:10, Jeremiah 22:18, John 11:31-35
Reciprocal: Genesis 50:9 - chariots Leviticus 10:4 - carry 1 Samuel 25:1 - lamented 1 Kings 13:30 - mourned over 2 Kings 2:12 - rent them 2 Kings 13:20 - buried him Matthew 14:12 - took Mark 6:29 - they came Acts 6:5 - Stephen Acts 9:39 - and all Acts 17:17 - devout Acts 22:12 - a devout 1 Thessalonians 4:13 - ye sorrow
Cross-References
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And devout men carried Stephen to his burial,.... These men were not Jewish proselytes, but members of the Christian church; who were eminent for their religion and piety, and who had courage enough, amidst this persecution, to show a respect to the dead body of this holy martyr; which they took from under the stones, washed it, and wound it up in linen clothes, and put it into a coffin, or on a bier: they did everything preparatory to the funeral, which, is chiefly designed by the word here used, rather than the carrying of him out to his grave; though this also they did, and buried him: and to bear a corpse and follow it to the grave, and bury it, were with the Jews x reckoned among acts of kindness, mercy, and piety, and which would not fail of a reward; they have a saying y, that
"he that mourns, they shall mourn for him; and he that buries, they shalt bury him and he that lifts up (his voice in weeping lamentation), they shall lift up for him; he that accompanies (a dead corpse), they shall accompany him; he that "carries", they shall carry him;''
as these devout men did, who would not suffer Stephen to be buried in the common burying place of malefactors, but interred him elsewhere, in a more decent manner: but whether they had leave from the sanhedrim so to do, or whether they did this of themselves, is not certain; if the latter, which seems most likely, it is an instance of great boldness and resolution, and especially at this time; for
"they did not bury one that was stoned in the sepulchres of his fathers, but there were two burying places appointed by the sanhedrim, one for those that are stoned and burnt, and another for those that are slain with the sword and strangled z.''
So that, they acted contrary to the Jewish canon, as they also did in what follows:
and made great lamentation over him; though they did not sorrow as those without hope, yet they did not put on a stoical apathy; but as men sensible of the loss the church of Christ had sustained, by the death of a person so eminent for his gifts and grace, they mourned over him in a becoming manner: in this they went contrary to the Jewish rule, which forbids lamentation for those that died as malefactors, and runs thus a
"they do not mourn, but they grieve; for grief is only in the heart;''
their reason for this was, as the commentators say b, because they thought that
"their disgrace was an atonement for their sin:''
but these devout men knew that Stephen needed no such atonement, and that his sins were atoned for another way: otherwise the Jews looked upon mourning for the dead to be to the honour of him; hence they say c, that mourning
"is the glory of the dead--whoever is backward to the mourning of a wise man shall not prolong his days; and whoever is sluggish in mourning for a good man, ought to be buried alive; and whoever causes tears to descend for a good man, lo, his reward is reserved for him with the holy blessed God.''
x Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Peah, c. 1. sect. 1. y T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 72. 1. & Moed Katon, fol. 28. 2. z Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 6. sect. 5. a Misn. Sanhedrin, sect. 6. b Jarchi & Bartenora in ib. c Maimon. Hilch. Ebel, c. 12. sect. 1, 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And devout men - Religious men. The word used here does not imply of necessity that they were Christians. There might have been Jews who did not approve of the popular tumult, and the murder of Stephen, who gave him a decent burial. Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus, both Jews, thus gave to the Lord Jesus a decent burial, John 19:38-39.
Carried Stephen - The word translated âcarriedâ means properly to âcollect,â as fruits, etc. Then it is applied to all the preparations necessary for fitting a dead body for burial, as âcollecting,â or confining it by bandages, with spices, etc.
And made great lamentation - This was usual among the Jews at a funeral. See the notes on Matthew 9:23.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 8:2. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial] The Greek word, ÏÏ Î½ÎµÎºÎ¿Î¼Î¹Ïαν, signifies not only to carry, or rather to gather up, but also to do every thing necessary for the interment of the dead. Among the Jews, and indeed among most nations of the earth, it was esteemed a work of piety, charity, and mercy, to bury the dead. The Jews did not bury those who were condemned by the Sanhedrin in the burying place of the fathers, as they would not bury the guilty with the innocent; and they had a separate place for those who were stoned, and for those that were burnt. According to the Tract Sanh. fol. 45, 46, the stone wherewith any one was stoned, the post on which he was hanged, the sword by which he was beheaded, and the cord by which he was strangled, were buried in the same place with the bodies of the executed persons. As these persons died under the curse of the law, the instruments by which they were put to death were considered as unclean and accursed, and therefore buried with their bodies. Among the ancients, whatever was grateful or useful to a person in life was ordinarily buried with him; thus the sword, spear, shield, c., of the soldier were put in the same grave the faithful dog of the hunter, c., c. And on this principle the wife of a Brahman burns with the body of her deceased husband.
Made great lamentation over him. — This was never done over any condemned by the Sanhedrin-they only bemoaned such privately this great lamentation over Stephen, if the same custom then prevailed as afterwards, is a proof that Stephen was not condemned by the Sanhedrin he probably fell a sacrifice to the fury of the bigoted incensed mob, the Sanhedrin not interfering to prevent the illegal execution.
