Acts 7:1
“Are these allegations true?” the high priest asked.
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In The King James Version
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 26:61and reported, “This man said, ‘I can destroy God's Temple, and rebuild it in three days.’”
John 18:19Then the chief priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and what he had been teaching.
Acts 6:13and called false witnesses who testified against him. “This man is always slandering the holy Temple and the law,” they said.
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 →