Acts 7:1

Then the high priest said, “Are these accusations true?”

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Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

In Context

2Stephen said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

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Cross References

Matthew 26:61and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”

John 18:19Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.

Acts 6:13Then they put forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against the holy place and against the law.

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 →

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