Acts 7:54
When they heard these things, they were enraged in their hearts, and gnashed upon him with their teeth.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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 by the appointment of angels, and have not kepi, it.
Cross References
Matthew 8:12but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast into the darkness that is without. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:50and cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24:51and will cut him in two, and appoint him his part with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Luke 13:28There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but your selves cast 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 →