Acts 22:20-24

And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing nearby and approving, and watching over the cloaks of those who were killing him.’

And He said to me, ‘Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’  ”

They listened to him up to this statement, and then they raised their voices and said, “Away with such a man from the earth, for he should not be allowed to live!”

And as they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air,

the commander ordered that he be brought into the barracks, saying that he was to be interrogated by flogging so that he would find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way.