Acts 7:54 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. ”

• Acts 7:54 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  They were cut to the heart - They were exceedingly enraged and indignant. The whole course of the speech had been such as to excite their anger, and now they could restrain themselves no longer....

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• Acts 7:54 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (8) When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with [their] teeth. (8) The more Satan is pressed, the more he breaks out into an open rage.

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• Acts 7:54 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Acts 7:54 to Acts 8:1 a . Death of Stephen. The speech of Stephen cuts the hearers to the quick. It is not said that they interrupted him; the speech is complete, but their apparent and veheme...

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• Acts 7:54 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  cut. Greek. diapriomai, as in Acts 5:33 . gnashed, &c. . were gnashing their teeth on him. Greek. brucho Only here. An onomatopoeic word, like brugmos. Matthew 8:12 , &c. Both are...

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• Acts 7:54 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  54. When they heard. The beginning of the action had in it some color of judgment; but at length the judges cannot bridle their fury. First, they interrupt him with murmuring and noise, now...

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• Acts 7:54 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. They were cut to the heart - Διεπριοντο, They were sawn through. See the note on Acts 5:33 . Th...

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• Acts 7:54 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with thei...

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• Acts 7:54 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Defence and Martyrdom of Stephen 1-53. Speech of Stephen. There is every reason to believe that this speech was really delivered by St. Stephen, and not composed by St. Luke; for, (1) the speech d...

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• Acts 7:54 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  They were cut to the heart. — Literally, were sawn through and through. (See Note on Acts 5:33 .) The word describes a keener pang than the “pricked” of Acts 2:37 , producing, not repentance, b...

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• Acts 7:54 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Martyr's Glorious Death Acts 7:47-60 Words like these could not be forgiven. The growing irritation of the audience seems to have extorted those burning remonstrances, and to have hastened th...

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• Acts 7:54 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The charge against Stephen was that he had spoken against the Temple and the Law. His reply consisted of a masterly review of the history of the nation from the calling of Abraham to the rejection of...

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• Acts 7:54 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Acts 7:54 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When they heard these things ,.... How that Abraham, the father of them, was called before he was circumcised, or the law was given to Moses, or the temple was built, which they were so bigoted to,...

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• Acts 7:54 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. Ver. 54. They were cut to the heart ] But that I believe that God and all his saints will tak...

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• Acts 7:54 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When they heard these things These plain, and undeniable, and alarming truths; they were cut to the heart Or sawn asunder, the original word being the same that is used chap. Acts 5:33 . And not...

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• Acts 7:54 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The high priest only asks the question, "Are these things so?" Then God provides room for Stephen to speak without interruption for some time. This stands in striking contrast to the way in which the...

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• Acts 7:54 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Stephen's Martyrdom; Stephen's Dying Prayer.       54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him w...

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• Acts 7:54 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Acts 5:33 . They were cut to the heart; they were angry to madness. They gnashed on him with their teeth: gnashing of teeth is the curse of the damned, Matthew 8:12 , which men by their...

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• Acts 7:54 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.' The verbs here are very powerful. ‘Cut to the heart' indicates that his words had gone home,...

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• Acts 7:54 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 7:54 . Cut to the heart. —See on Acts 7:33 . The word describes a keener pang than “pricked “in Acts 2:37 . Gnashed on him with their teeth .—Lit. snapped their teeth a...

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• Acts 7:54 - Scofield Reference Notes

  When they heard They had brought false witnesses against Stephen; he bears true witness against them, quoting the testimony of writers they owned to be inspired. He speaks of the persistent re...

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• Acts 7:54 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Acts 6 ; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of...

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• Acts 7:54 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The scope and design of St. Stephen's defence before the council will be better understood, if it be properly analyzed. The rulers construed his defence to import, that the glory of their temple shou...

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• Acts 7:54 - The Biblical Illustrator

  When they heard these things they were cut to the heart. The procedure against Stephen I. The narrative. Full of faith and power, he did great wonders and miracles among the people. He is, ther...

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• Acts 7:54 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 7:1 And the high priest said for then said the high priest, A.V. The high priest spoke as president of the Sanhedrim (see Acts 9:1-44 . Acts 9:1 and Matthew 26:62 )....

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• Acts 7:54 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

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• Acts 7:54 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 22:22 ; Acts 22:23 ; Acts 5:33 ; Job 16:9 ; Lamentations 2:16 ; Luke 13:28 ; Matthew 13:42 ; Matthew 13:50 ; Matthew 22:13 ; Matthew 24:51 ; Matthew 25:30 ; Matthew 8:12 ; Psalms 11...

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• Acts 7:54 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Stephen's Last Words and Martyrdom Acts 7:44-60 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us, by way of opening word, speak a few words on two great benefactions to Israel (see Acts 7:44-50 ). 1. The fathers...

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