Acts 7:1
Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are the things that these people are saying about you(sg) true?”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 26:61and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy God’s Temple and to rebuild it within three days.’”
John 18:19While Peter was doing that, the high priest asked Jesus about his disciples and about what he was teaching people.
Acts 6:13They also brought in some other men who accused Stephen falsely about several things. They said, “This fellow continually says bad things about this holy Temple and about the laws that Moses received from God.
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 →