Commentary on Acts

Name: Commentary on Acts
Author: Peter of Alexandria

Peter of Alexandria (d. 311)

Thus first Stephen, pressing on His footsteps, suffered martyrdom, being apprehended in Jerusalem by the transgressors, and being brought before the council, he was stoned, and glorified for the name of Christ, praying with the words, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge."

Let them recall to their minds also how Peter, the chief of the apostles, "was thrown into prison, and delivered to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; "

And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death"

For what they set before themselves, first and foremost, was to do the work of an evangelist, and to teach the Word of God, in which, confirming the brethren, that they might continue in the faith, they said this also, "that we must out of much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God."

For after that they had been very burdensome to them for his name, and had troubled the people and the rulers of the city, "having taken security "he says, "of Jason, and of the others, they let them go. And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea."

Commentary on Acts

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