What happened when St. Stephen addressed the jewish crowd after christ's crucifixion ?

Early Christianity had a rather significant problem. Knowledgeable Jews understood that Jewish texts didn't say what the early Christians wanted them to.

What came of that doesn't compliment early Christians in the least. Their writers chose to write political propaganda which cast Jews who disagreed with them as villains. That politically motivated, hateful fiction was then declared to be infallibly true.

Accepting it as such doesn't compliment modern Christians either.

Isn't it time we left the hate speech in the 1st century?

That whole scenario is historically inaccurate. This was also not really a question but more a statement, don't you think?

People who use the "nt" as historical records need to be careful because most of the entire thing cannot be historically accurate based on just the customs of the times. Even the death of jesus cannot be true simply because it is not historically accurate. No one was executed on Friday because they would have been executed so they dying on Shabbat. This would have inflamed the Jewish populace. No one would have died that quickly. The entire books makes no sense in a historical context and Stephen is no different. Jews know that jesus was a false prophet and then just as now, they seek to convert Jews to a fase doctrine.

"Thus began the xtian persecution by the Jews". You seem to have forgotten the MASSIVE persecution of Jews by xtians.

I agree with Angels in the phone box on this one.

Gatita missed the fact that according to Jewish law there should have been a trial. What the passage in question describes is a "lynch mob" which was not what the "Jewish custom prescribed"

Stephen's stoning climaxes his witness and introduces an important turning point in the witness of the Hellenistic Jewish Christians of Jerusalem. The intensity and scope of persecution and the extent of witness both take quantum leaps.Stephen's Accusers Respond with Rage (7:54) Stephen's indictment (7:51-53) so penetrates "uncircumcised hearts" that the Sanhedrin is furious (literally "sawn through in their hearts"; compare 5:33). They are "torn up" not with repentant sorrow for their sins but with seething anger against the preacher of repentance.

Stephen gazes into heaven (atenizo is stronger than the NIV looked up to; compare 1:10; 3:4, 12; 6:15). God grants that Stephen may peer into heaven itself with his mind's eye and see the glory of God (either a circumlocution for God the Father or the shekinah glory that both conceals and reveals the divine presence and nature; compare 7:2; 22:11). This vision positively culminates the climactic thesis of Stephen's sermon: God dwells in heaven, not in temples made with hands (7:48-50). The Son of Man standing at the right hand of God is at the center of Stephen's attention and the heart of his confession.

Like a herd of stampeding animals (compare Lk 8:33), yet intent on one purpose (NIV all), they rush together against Stephen, drag him out of the city and begin to stone him. Throwing him down from a high place, they gather and heave paving stones on top of him until death comes. These are the appropriate punishment, place and executioners (the witnesses) for the sin of blasphemy (Lev 24:14; Deut 17:7; m. Sanhedrin 6:1, 4; 7:4).In an extraneous note indicating the custodian of the witness-executioners' cloaks Luke introduces us to a young man named Saul. He will figure prominently in the advance of the church in the near and long term (Acts 8:3; chaps. 9, 13--28).

Jewish custom prescribed that the condemned be given opportunity to confess his sins on his way to execution so that he might have "a share in the world to come". In prayer he calls on Jesus to take him into his presence at death. Whether falling under the weight of a paving stone hurled from above or deliberately kneeling in prayer, Stephen cries out with a loud voice (contrast Acts 7:57), asking that Jesus not "establish the sins" of his executioners. Like his Lord, Stephen dies at peace with God, himself and the world--even his enemies. He fell asleep. By showing us how to die, he also shows us how to live and models the secret of staying power of Christian witness even to death. If he can die for his Lord like that, confidently, forgiving his enemies, there must be something to this Jesus who he says reigns at God's right hand.Persecution and the Church's Advance.

Blessings, gatita

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Degree in History (focus Jewish studies) and Spanish, New Mexico State U. 1990