Acts 7:54
When the members of the Sanhedrin heard these things, they were enraged and began gnashing their teeth at him.
Text-Critical English NT
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 ordained by angels yet have not kept it.”
Cross References
Matthew 8:12but the sons of the kingdom will be cast into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13:50and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 24:51and will cut him in two and assign his portion to be with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Luke 13:28In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves cast out.
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 →