Acts 7:54
Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth at him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Cross References
Job 16:9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.
Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Matthew 8:12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:50And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24:51And shall separate him, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Luke 13:28There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust 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 →