A depiction of the New Testament story (Acts 7, 58) Saint Stephen was condemned to stoning after angering the priests of the Sanhedrin assembly. This scene represents the moment when he is taken out of the city and led to martyrdom, by the executioners at the doors of Jerusalem, just as Christ was, on Calvary. Juanes differs from his father´s style I by accenting the ugliness of the executioners, in an almost Manichean contrast with the beauty and tranquility of the saint´s face. Saul, the future Saint Paul, contemplates the scene.

One of the ways in which the artist most draws away from Macip is in the landscape. His father was more realistic and more influenced by Flemish painting, but the son uses monuments that identify ancient Rome, such as the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, which alludes to that city as a Celestial Jerusalem. This work was made for the altarpiece of the Church of San Esteban in Valencia, along with other scenes from the saint´s life (P00838, P00839, P00841 and P00842), as well as the Last Supper (P00846).