Acts 7:52
Which of the Nevi'im (prophets) did your Avot not persecute? And they killed the ones having announced beforehand about the Bias HaMoshiach, the coming of the Tzaddik of whom now you became bogedim and rotzechim (murderers);
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
53You who received the Torah at the directions of malachim and were not shomer of it.
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:7And Hashem said unto Shmuel, Shema unto the voice of HaAm in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign as Melech over them.
1 Kings 19:14And he said, 1 I have been very kina 1 for Hashem Elohei Tzivos; 1 because the Bnei Yisroel have forsaken Thy Brit (Covenant), + 19:14 i.e., Sinai Covenant 1 thrown down Thine mizbechot, 1 and slain Thy nevi'im with the cherev; 1 and I, even I only, am left; 1 and they seek my nefesh, to take it away.
2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the malachim of Elohim, and despised His words, and derided His nevi'im, until the Chamat Hashem was aroused against His people, until there was no marpeh (remedy, healing).
Jeremiah 2:30In vain have I struck your banim; 1 they received no musar; + 2:30 cf Isa 53:5 1 your own cherev hath devoured your nevi'im, 1 like a destroying lion. 1
Jeremiah 26:15But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring dahm naki upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for b'emes Hashem hath sent me unto you to speak all these Devarim in your oznayim.
Zechariah 9:9Rejoice greatly, O Bat Tziyon; 1 shout, O Bat Yerushalayim; 1 hinei, thy Melech cometh unto thee, 1 tzaddik, and having Salvation; 1 ani (lowly, meek), and riding upon a chamor, 1 even upon a colt the foal of a donkey. + 9:9 Mt 21:5; Yn 12:15 1
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 →