Acts 7:53
you who received the law by means of the angels, but refused to keep it.”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:1Two months to the day after they left Egypt, the Israelites arrived at the Sinai desert.
Psalms 68:17God's chariots can't be counted; there are thousands and thousands of them. He comes among them from Sinai into his Temple.
John 7:19Moses gave you the law, didn't he? Yet none of you keeps the law! Why are you trying to kill me?”
Romans 2:23You boast about having the law, but don't you misrepresent God by breaking it?
Galatians 6:13Even those who are circumcised don't keep the law, but they want to have you circumcised so that they can boast about you and claim you as their followers.
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 →