Acts 7:54
Now when they heard these things, they were cut through their hearts as with a saw, and gnashed upon him with their teeth.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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 have received the law through arrangements of angels, yet have not observed it.
Cross References
Matthew 8:12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast into the outer darkness: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:50and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24:51And will cut him asunder, and give him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Luke 13:28There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom, and 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 →