Acts 8:1 · World English Bible
Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
Consenting understates the word: Saul was pleased, wholly in agreement with the killing, and approval like that counts as guilt though other hands did the work. The persecution that followed cost Jerusalem believers their homes, their trades, and some of them their freedom.
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Consenting understates the word: Saul was pleased, wholly in agreement with the killing, and approval like that counts as guilt though other hands did the work. The persecution that followed cost Jerusalem believers their homes, their trades, and some of them their freedom.
Scattered translates the sowing word, used for flinging seed across a field. Driven out, ordinary believers carried the message into Judea and Samaria, the exact ground they had been told to cover. The apostles alone stayed in the dangerous city, so the spreading fell to people with no office and no title.
Protestant lens
Where has being pushed out of a comfortable place put you exactly where you were needed?
The lotus grows out of the mud, so the circumstances you would never have chosen are the ones that carry the work forward. No cleaner ground was coming.
What blocks the road becomes the road, since the fire takes whatever is thrown on it and burns brighter. The obstruction is the fuel.
Water turned out of its channel does not stop; it finds the low ground and spreads where it was never sent. Being pushed is how it reaches further.
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