Acts 7:1

And the high priest said, Are these things so?

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Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

In Context

2And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:61But finally two FALSE witnesses having come, they said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it by three days.

John 18:19The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, and about his doctrine.

Acts 6:13And they put forward FALSE witnesses who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous sayings against the holy place, and the law.

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:1

When our Lord Jesus called his apostles out to be employed in services and sufferings for him, he told them that yet the last should be first, and the first last, which was remarkably fulfilled in St. Stephen and St. Paul, who were both of them late converts, in comparison of the apostles, and yet got the start of them both in services and sufferings; for God, in conferring honours and favours, often crosses hands. In this chapter we have the martyrdom of Stephen, the first martyr of the Christian church, who led… Read the whole commentary →

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