Acts 7:53
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
54When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why go all of you about to kill me?
Romans 2:23You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonour you God?
Galatians 6:13For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
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 →