Acts 7:52-54

Stephen's Speech

52 g Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of h the Righteous One, i whom you have now betrayed and murdered, 53 you who received the law j as delivered by angels and k did not keep it."

The Stoning of Stephen

54 Now when they heard these things l they were enraged, and they m ground their teeth at him.

  1. Cross References
    1 Kings 19:10
    He said, "I have been very jealous for the Lord...
    2 Chronicles 36:16
    But they kept mocking the messengers of God, de...
    Jeremiah 2:30
    In vain have I struck your children; they took ...
    Matthew 23:31
    Thus you witness against yourselves that you ar...
    Matthew 23:37
    O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the...
    Matthew 5:12
    Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great i...
    Matthew 21:35
    And the tenants took his servants and beat one,...
  2. Cross References
    Acts 3:14
    But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.
  3. Cross References
    Acts 5:28
    Saying, "We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
  4. Cross References
    Galatians 3:19
    Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
    Hebrews 2:2
    For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution.
    Acts 7:38
    This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.
    Deuteronomy 33:2
    He said, "The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.
  5. Cross References
    John 7:19
    Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?
  6. Cross References
    Acts 5:33
    When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.
    Acts 2:37
    Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?
  7. Cross References
    Job 16:9
    He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
    Psalms 35:16
    Like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.
    Psalms 37:12
    The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him.
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