First, we learn that Saul the man who approvingly witnessed the stoning of Stephen still breathing threat and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that he might bring bound to Jerusalem any whom he found who belonged to The Way, both men and women. Then, in about the year 44 C.E., Herod the king applied his hands to mistreating some of those of the congregation.
44ರ ಸುಮಾರಿಗೆ, “ಅರಸನಾದ ಹೆರೋದನು ಸಭೆಯವರಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲವರನ್ನು ಹಿಂಸೆಪಡಿಸುವದಕ್ಕೆ ಕೈ ಹಾಕಿ ಯೋಹಾನನ ಅಣ್ಣನಾದ ಯಾಕೋಬನನ್ನು ಕತ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಕೊಲ್ಲಿಸಿದನು. ” ​ —⁠ ಅ.