Acts 7:54
And hearing these words, they were cut through their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him.
1902 William Baxter Godbey 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
53who received the law in the administrations of angels, and did not keep it.
Cross References
Matthew 8:12but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:50and will cast them into the furnace of the fire: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24:51and he will cut him off, and will appoint his part with hypocrites: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.
Luke 13:28And there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you 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 →