Acts 8:1-5

¹Then some men who revered God buried Stephen's body in a tomb, and they mourned greatly and loudly for him. On that same day people started severely persecuting the believers who were living in Jerusalem. So most of the believers fled to other places throughout Judea and Samaria provinces. The apostles were the only believers who remained in Jerusalem.

³While the people were killing Stephen, Saul was there approving of their killing Stephen. So Saul also began trying to destroy the group of believers. He entered houses one by one, he dragged away men and women who believed in Jesus, and then he arranged for them to be put in prison.

⁴The believers who had left Jerusalem went to different places, where they continued preaching the message about Jesus.

⁵One of those believers whose name was Philip went down from Jerusalem to a city in Samaria province. There he was telling the people that Jesus is MTY the Messiah.