Acts 7:54
And when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart and gnashed their teeth at him.
1770 John Worsley NT
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
53who received the law by the ministration of angels, and yet have not kept it.
Cross References
Matthew 8:12and the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness; where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:50and shall cast them into the fiery furnace, and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24:51and will cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with hypocrites: where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Luke 13:28and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves shut out.
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 →