Acts 7:54
But when they heard these thinges, their heartes brast for anger, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
53Which haue receiued the Lawe by the ordinance of Angels, and haue not kept it.
Cross References
Job 16:9His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.
Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see it and be angrie: he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Matthew 8:12And the children of the kingdome shall be cast out into vtter darkenes: there shalbe weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:50And shall cast them into a fornace of fire: there shalbe wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24:51And will cut him off, and giue him his portion with hypocrites: there shalbe weeping, and gnashing of teeth.
Luke 13:28There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac, and Iacob, and all the Prophets in the kingdome of God, and your selues thrust out at doores.
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 →