How do we reconcile that the Jews persuaded the Romans to kill Jesus because capital punishment was not to be executed by the Jews, yet Stephen was stoned by the Jews?
If Stephen was filled with the Holy Spirit, but was mistaken in his speech, for example, how does he come up with where the bodies are buried Shechem, instead of Hebron? And how does he come up with the 70, instead of 75 bodies? Only the Masoretic text is infallible.
Could you share some thoughts about the persecution of the church today, and if the early church relied on the government to assist them? [Mark 12:30-31].