Acts 7:54
Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.
Bible in Basic English
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
53You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.
Cross References
Job 16:9I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
Psalms 112:10The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.
Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
Matthew 13:50And will put them into the fire: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
Matthew 24:51And will have him cut in two, and will give him a part in the fate of the false ones: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
Luke 13:28There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.
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 →