Acts 7:54
As they listened to this, the Council grew frantic with rage, and gnashed their teeth at Stephen.
Open English Bible (UK)
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
53you who received the Law as transmitted by angels and yet failed to keep it.’
Cross References
Psalms 112:10The sight of them fills the wicked with anger: grinding their teeth with despair. The hopes of the wicked will come to nothing.
Matthew 8:12while the heirs to the kingdom will be banished into the darkness outside; there, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.’
Matthew 13:50and will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
Matthew 24:51and will flog the servant severely, and assign them their place among the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
Luke 13:28There, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, while you yourselves are being driven outside.
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 →