Acts 7:54
Then, upon hearing these things, they were deeply wounded in their hearts, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
Catholic Public Domain 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
53You received the law by the actions of Angels, and yet you have not kept it.”
Cross References
Job 16:9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.
Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13:50And they shall cast them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24:51And he shall separate him, and he shall place his portion with the hypocrites, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Luke 13:28In that place, there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, yet you yourselves are expelled 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 →