Quotes about Stoning

“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.”

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. —Mahatma Gandhi

“Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.

Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.

While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”

But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.

They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.