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MARTYRS IN THE BIBLE
STEPHEN, FIRST
CHRISTIAN MARTYR

ACTS 6-7

STEPHEN “SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWER”

Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, did great wonders and miraculous signs among the people. The elders and the teachers of the law seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin. They saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

Stephen replied, “You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him — you who have received the law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed it.”

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CARPACCIO
"La Prédication de Saint Etienne à Jérusalem"

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FRA ANGELICO
Source

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FRA ANGELICO
Source

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FRA FILIPPO LIPPI
"Disputation in the Synagogue"

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JOSEF ARNOLD the Elder
Source

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Source

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PAOLO UCCELLO
"Disputation of St Stephen"

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Source

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JUAN DE JUANES
"Saint Stephen in the Synagogue"

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JUAN DE JUANES
"Saint Stephen Accused of Blasphemy"

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ANDREA VACCARO
"Saint Stephen Taken to His Martyrdom"

THE POWERS REACT TO STEPHEN

When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”

At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, dragged him out of the city and began to stone him.

While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Then he fell on his knees and cried out, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he fell asleep

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ANTONIO CARRACCI
"The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen"

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JACQUES STELLA
"The Martyrdom of St. Stephen"

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ANNIBALE CARRACCI
"The Stoning of Saint Stephen"

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FRANZ XAVER WAGENSCHON
"Stoning of St. Stephen"

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JEAN BAPTISTE DE CHAMPAIGNE
"The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen"

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FRA ANGELICO
"The Stoning of St Stephen"

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GIORGIO VASARI
"Martyrdom of St Stephen"

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PETER PAUL RUBENS
"Saint Stephen"

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ANTHONY VAN DYCK
"The Stoning of Saint Stephen"

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Foxe's Christian Martyrs of the World
"St. Stephen Is Stoned to Death"

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FERDINANDO TACCA
"Martirio di S. Stefano"

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CHARLES LE BRUN
"The Stoning of St. Stephen"

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CHARLES THÉVENIN
"Stoning of Saint Stephen"

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LUIGI GARZI
"Die Steinigung des Heiligen Stephanus"

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KAREL ŠKRÉTA
"Steinigung des Stephanus"

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STEFAN SUBIC
"Saint Stephen's Stoning"

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Source

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Death of Stephen"

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EDWARD BURNE-JONES
"The Stoning of St Stephen"

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Source

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BERNARDO DADDI
"Storie di Santo Stefano"

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SANTE PIATTI
"The Stoning of St. Stephen"

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CHARLES THÉVENIN
"La Lapidation de Saint Etienne"

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MASTER OF JEAN ROLIN II
"The Martyrdom of St. Stephen"

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GIOVANNI ANDREA DE FERRARI
"Martyrdom of Saint Stephen"

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GABRIEL-JULES THOMAS
"The Stoning of St. Stephen"

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LUDOVICO CARDI CIGOLI
"The Martyrdom of St. Stephen"

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ORAZIO SAMACCHINI
"The Stoning of Saint Stephen"

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JEAN BAPTISTE MARIE PIERRE
"Martyrdom of St. Stephen"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Paul"

New International Version ©1984, Abrgd, EMPHASES added
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[Red Badger]

Can you spot St. Paul in those paintings?

Some do have him, some don’t..............

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Yes, he is sometimes included.

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Yes, but can you tell which one he is?.............😉

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The one holding the coats.

[Red Badger]

Yes! I noticed some have him older than others.

I always pictured him as a teenager at the stoning............

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I have him as mid-to-late twenties, in order to be granted so much police power so shortly thereafter.

[No name given]

Both the paintings and our God are just beautiful.

[Red Badger]

Yes, that would be a good guess. It was soon thereafter that he began hunting down Christians for the Temple Priests.............

[etabeta]

Great page with so many splendid paintings, stained glass windows, sculptures and engravings. Thank you, Dan!

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If you see a rock coming, Alba, DUCK!

[etabeta]

Hans Leinberger - 16th c. wood sculpture

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I have super powers...I will catch it with my hand and throw it back to the offender...

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he began hunting down Christians for the Temple Priests.............

It's been my understanding that he did more than "hunting down" those believers. Certainly, he admitted imprisoning them, at the very least. But did he also execute some?

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I have no doubt!

[etabeta]

The work is carved from three pieces of wood: one was used for the saint and the other two for the lateral extensions of the seat. The modeling is so convincing that when viewed from the front, the figure, in fact a sculpture in relief, appears to be rendered fully in the round. The statue is well preserved except for the loss of much of the original polychromy. The relief probably was once part of a series of seated figures of saints that may have included St Lawrence, another deacon saint often depicted together with St Stephen in Late Gothic art. (From Web Gallery of Art)

[Red Badger]

I don’t think he had that authority. He would capture them and bring them back to Jerusalem for the trials by the Sanhedrin, like a Bounty Hunter.....................

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Those rocks on the Bible are a wonderful identifier, in the artistic tradition of showing the martyr’s manner of death.

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I just wonder whether the hysteria against the new sect ever got so frenzied, as these persecutions will, that such trials were dispensed with and summary executions imposed.....................