Acts 7:1

Then the High Priest asked him, "Are these statements true?"

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

In Context

2The reply of Stephen was, "Sirs--brethren and fathers--listen to me. God Most Glorious appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was living in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

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Cross References

Matthew 26:61who testified, "This man said, `I am able to pull down the Sanctuary of God and three days afterwards to build a new one.'"

John 18:19So the High Priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching.

Acts 6:13Here they brought forward false witnesses who declared, "This fellow is incessantly speaking against the Holy Place and the Law.

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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