Acts 7:53
you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are tens of thousands— thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.
John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
Romans 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
Galatians 6:13For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
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 →