Acts 7:54
Hearing these things, they were enraged in their hearts, and gnashed their teeth against him.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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 received the law as the ordinances of angels, and kept it not.
Cross References
Matthew 8:12but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth!
Matthew 13:50and will cast them into the furnace of fire; there will be the wailing, and the gnashing of teeth!
Matthew 24:51and will cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth!
Luke 13:28There will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and 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 →