Acts 7:54
Now when the council members heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they ground their teeth at Stephen.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 people who received the law that angels had established, but you did not keep it.”
Cross References
Job 16:9God has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me; 1 He grinds his teeth in rage; 1 my enemy fastens his eyes on me as he tears me apart. 1
Psalms 112:10The wicked person will see this and be angry; 1 he will grind his teeth in rage and he will melt away; 1 the desire of the wicked people will perish.
Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.”
Matthew 13:50They will throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
Matthew 24:51His master will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
Luke 13:28There will be crying and the grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God's kingdom, but you are thrown 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 →