Acts 7:1

Then sayd the chiefe Priest, Are these things so?

Geneva Bible 1599

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Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

In Context

2And he sayd, Ye men, brethren and Fathers, hearken. That God of glory appeared vnto our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

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Cross References

Matthew 26:61And saide, This man saide, I can destroie the Temple of God, and build it in three daies.

John 18:19(The hie Priest then asked Iesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.

Acts 6:13And set forth false witnesses, which sayd, This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes against this holy place, and 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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