² [A party of] devout men ^[a]with others helped to carry out and bury Stephen and made great lamentation over him.

³ But Saul shamefully treated and laid waste the church continuously [with cruelty and violence]; and entering house after house, he dragged out men and women and committed them to prison.

⁴ Now those who were scattered abroad went about [through the land from place to place] preaching the glad tidings, the Word [^[b]the doctrine concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God].