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Welcome to the next Bible podcast episode 44 at 8.

I'm your resident of Laman, Trace Trichland, and he's the scholar Dr. Michael Heiser.

How you doing? Very good. Good to talk to you again, Tray.

Absolutely. So this week we're just going to go right into Acts 8.

Yep, right in. Let's go. Of course, Acts 7 ends with Peter, not Peter, but Stevens

arrest and his sermon and his execution. And Acts 8 opens the very first verse says,

and Saul approved of his execution. Of course, at the end of chapter 7,

those who were stoning Stephen laid their garments down at the feet of a young man named Saul.

That's chapter 7 verse 58. And of course, we know that character's going to become Paul in a little

bit. But chapter 8, again, opens with this note about Saul approving of what happened.

And let's just jump in with the rest of it. We'll stop here and there. And I'll make a

few comments about some things that I think everyone will find interesting.

Released most people will find interesting. So Saul approved of his execution.

And there are rows on that day, a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem.

And they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the Apostles.

Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.

But Saul was ravaging the church and entering house after house. He dragged off men and women

and committed them to prison. So again, we have this scene where things are just, you know,

they're just not going well, great persecution against the church in Jerusalem.

The believers get scattered again throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the

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