Acts 7:54
As they heard these words they became furious and gnashed their teeth at him.
Montgomery 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
53"you who received the law, given through angels, and obeyed it not."
Cross References
Matthew 8:12"but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; there will be the wailing and the gnashing of teeth."
Matthew 13:50"There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24:51"and will scourge him severely, and allot him a place among hypocrites, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Luke 13:28"‘depart from me, all of you, you evil-doers.’ There will 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 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 →