About this Painting: stoning, first Christian martyr, execution, mob, murder, assassination, killing, Jewish, Catholic, saint, horse, assassins, Jews, New Testament, tumult, violence, pain, crowd, Rembrandt's earliest extant painting, passions, religious, Bible, disciple, persecution, death, stones, rocks, killing, anger, terror, Jerusalem, first deacon, early Church, Book of Acts 6:8-10 and 7:54-59, Feast Day 26 December, 36 A.D., Stephanos, Hellenists, Sanhedrin, Saul of Tarsus, Apostle Paul, patron saint of stonemasons, patron saint of headaches, St Stephen the Protomartyr, Στέφανος, Πρωτομάρτυρας, Protomartyras, evangelist, theophany, Saint Étienne