Acts 6:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And all that sat in the council The priests, rulers, scribes, and elders; looking steadfastly on him As being a stranger, and one whom they had not till now had before them, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel Covered with a supernatural lustre, like that which appeared on the face of our Lord when he was transfigured, or at least that of Moses's face, when he came down from the mount. Hereby God designed to put honour on his faithful witness, and confusion on his persecutors and judges, whose sin would be highly aggravated, and would indeed be rebellion against the visible glory of God, if, notwithstanding this, they proceeded against him. They reckoned his preaching of Jesus as the Christ, was destroying both Moses and the law; and God bears witness to him with the same glory as he did to Moses, when he gave the law by him. And it was an astonishing instance of the incorrigible hardness and wickedness of their hearts, that they could murder a man on whom God put such a visible glory, similar to that of their great legislator. But we know what little impression other miracles made upon them, the truth of which they were compelled to acknowledge.