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SearchStephen Stoned to Death for Teaching the Truth
And so all went well in Jerusalem until the time of the coming of the Greeks in large numbers
from Alexandria. Two of the pupils of Rodan arrived in Jerusalem and made many converts from
among the Hellenists. Among their early converts were Stephen and Barnabas. These able
Greeks did not so much have the Jewish viewpoint, and they did not so well conform to the
Jewish mode of worship and other ceremonial practices. And it was the doings of these Greek
believers that terminated the peaceful relations between the Jesus brotherhood and the Pharisees
and Sadducees. Stephen and his Greek associate began to preach more as Jesus taught, and this
brought them into immediate conflict with the Jewish rulers. In one of Stephen‘s public sermons,
when he reached the objectionable part of the discourse, they dispensed with all formalities of
trial and proceeded to stone him to death on the spot.