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Acts 7:54 KJV
Acts · chapter 7 · verse 54
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.Acts 7:54 · King James Version
Acts 7:54 in context
52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
55But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- gnashedbrychōto grind, gnash with the teeth, to bite, to chewG1031 →
- heardakouōto be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf, to hear, to attend to, consider what…G191 →
- heartkardiathe heart, that organ in the animal body which is the centre of the circulation of the…G2588 →
- heartautoshimself, herself, themselves, itself, he, she, it, the sameG846 →
- cutdiapriōto saw asunder or in two, to divide by a saw, to be sawn through mentallyG1282 →
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We have here the death of the first martyr of the Christian church, and there is in this story a lively instance of the outrage and fury of the persecutors (such as we may expect to meet with if we are called out to suffer for Christ), and of the courage and comfort of the persecuted, that are thus called out.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 54-60