Acts 7:54
As they listened to these words, they became infuriated and gnashed their teeth at him.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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
53you who received the Law given through angels, and yet have not obeyed it."
Cross References
Matthew 8:12while the natural heirs of the Kingdom will be driven out into the darkness outside: there will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth."
Matthew 13:50and will throw them into the fiery furnace. There will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth."
Matthew 24:51he will treat him with the utmost severity and assign him a place among the hypocrites: there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Luke 13:28"There will be the weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being driven far away.
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 →