Acts 7:1

And the prince of priests said to Stephen, Whether these things have them so? (And the High Priest said to Stephen, Be these things true?)

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In The King James Version

Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

In Context

2Which said, Brethren and fathers, hear ye, (or And he said, Brothers and fathers, listen). [The] God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before that he dwelt in Charran,

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Cross References

Matthew 26:61and said, This (man) said, I may destroy the temple of God, and after the third day build it again [or and after three days build it again]. (and said, He said, I shall destroy the Temple of God, and after three days build it up again.)

John 18:19And the bishop asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his teaching. (And the former High Priest asked Jesus about his disciples, and about his teaching.)

Acts 6:13And they ordained false witnesses, that said, This man ceaseth not to speak words 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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