Acts 7:53
who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep [it].'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
54And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in this day they have come into the wilderness of Sinai,
Psalms 68:17The chariots of God [are] myriads, thousands of changes, The Lord [is] among them, in Sinai, in the sanctuary.
John 7:19hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'
Romans 2:23thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?
Galatians 6:13for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.
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 →