Acts 7:54
Now when they heard these things, they were split with a saw in their hearts, and they gnashed their teeth against him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
In Context
53who received the law at directions of heavenly agents, and did not keep it.
Cross References
Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.
Psalms 112:10A wicked man shall see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of wicked men shall perish.
Matthew 8:12but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:50and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24:51and he will cut him in two, and place his share with the hypocrites. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Luke 13:28There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye will see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you being thrust out.
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:52-54
Stephen's Address. 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. Stephen was going on in his discourse (as it should seem by the thread of it) to show that, as the temple,… Read the whole commentary →