This paper argues that in his account of the stoning of Stephen, Luke alluded to the seizure of Jeremiah in Jeremiah 26:1-24. This allusion, which has passed largely undiscussed within modern scholarship, is exegetically significant because it draws a contrast between the generation of Jeremiah and the generation of Stephen. During Jeremiah’s generation, in all its wickedness, some officials and the people remained to speak in defense of Jeremiah. Not so with Stephen, as he stood in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets who had also been persecuted, he found himself alone and without defenders. Luke punctuated this by carefully blending Saul into the background, suggesting that he should have intervened, but his misplaced zeal prevented him from seeing Stephen as a true prophet.