Acts 7:1

Then the high priest said, Are these things true?

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Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

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2And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,

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Cross References

Matthew 26:61But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.

John 18:19Then the high priest put questions to Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.

Acts 6:13And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against 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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