Acts 7:53
you who received the Law given through angels, and yet have not obeyed it."
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
54As they listened to these words, they became infuriated and gnashed their teeth at him.
Cross References
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not a man of you obeys the Law. Why do you want to kill me?"
Romans 2:23You who make your boast in the Law, do you offend against its commands and so dishonour God?
Galatians 6:13For these very men do not really keep the Law of Moses, but they would have you receive circumcision in order that they may glory in *your* bodies.
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 →