Acts 7:1

Then the high priest said: Are these things so?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

In Context

2Who said: Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:61And they said: This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and after three days to rebuild it.

John 18:19The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.

Acts 6:13And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and 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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