Acts 7:1

And the high priest asked him: Are these things so?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

In Context

2And he said: Men, brethren, and our fathers, hear ye. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was between the rivers, before he came to reside in Charran;

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Cross References

Matthew 26:61and said: This man said, I can destroy the temple of God, and in three days rebuild it.

John 18:19And the high priest interrogated Jesus respecting his disciples, and respecting his doctrine.

Acts 6:13And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to utter words contrary to the law, and against this holy place.

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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