Acts 7:48

1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:5; 2 Chronicles 2:6; 2 Chronicles 6:18; Acts 17:24; Acts 17:25; Daniel 4:17; Daniel 4:24; Daniel 4:25; Daniel 4:34; Deuteronomy 32:8; Hosea 7:16; Isaiah 66:1; Isaiah 66:2; Psalms 46:4; Psalms 7:17; Psalms 91:1; Psalms 91:9; Psalms 92:8

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Howbeit - But. Stephen was charged with speaking against the temple. He had now shown that he had due veneration for it, by his declaring that it...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The speech comes nearer the charge it is to refute. The Temple itself is wrong. Moses acted on direct Divine injunction as to the tabernacle of witne...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Howbeit, &c. Read, "But not the Most High in hand-made temples dwelleth". The "not"stands first by Figure of speech Anastrophe. App-6. the...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, The Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands - Here St....
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And desired to find a tabernacle, &c.— 'Ητησατο, made it his petition. From the account which the Scripture gives of David, it appears how gr...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in [temples] made wit...
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, a...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Stephen's words do not indicate that the building of Solomon's Temple was a mistake, but they do indicate that God's worship is not necessarily tied...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples. — The sequel shows the impression which these words made on the hearers. Stephen had risen to the tr...
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 th...
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 nati...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. (31) Whe...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands ,.... Such an one as Solomon's was; he did indeed dwell in his temple, but he was not...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Ver. 48. Howbeit, the Most High dwelleth not ] This he subjo...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Howbeit Αλλα, but , or yet; we are not to imagine that God permitted a temple to be built even then for his own sake: for it was acknowledged, a...
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 s...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Stephen's Address. 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of he...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This is also St. Paul's doctrine, Acts 17:21 , which divers amongst the wiser heathens were persuaded of; for God cannot be comprehended in any pl...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

What Israel's Attitude Towards God's Dwellingplace Had Been (7:44-50). What Stephen said here would mainly have been acceptable to many Hellenisti...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Reply to the Charge of Speaking Against the Law and the Temple (7:44-53). Having been accused of speaking against the Law Stephen defends himself...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘However the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands; as says the prophet,' Thus the Temple was an error, a concession allowed by God but...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 7:1 . The high priest’s question, Are these things so? analogous to that put to Christ ( Matthew 26:62 ), was equivalent...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 7:45 . Our fathers that came after should be simply our fathers. Jesus is Joshua , as in Hebrews 4:8 . Into (lit....
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 rep...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 7:47-50 The Temples of God. Note: I. The physical creation. "Heaven is My throne; and earth is My footstool. Hath not My hand made these th...
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 defe...
The Biblical Illustrator

Then said the high priest, Are these things so? The high priest and his question This functionary was probably Theophilus, son-in-law of Caiaph...
The Biblical Illustrator

But Solomon built Him an house. The temples of God Scripture divides the Divine dispensations into the Patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christi...
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 (s...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Tabernacle and the Temple:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Howbeit, the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the prophet,
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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Yet the Most High inhabiteth not temples made with hands — As Solomon declared at the very dedication of the temple, 1 Kings 8:27 . The Most High...

⁴⁸ Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

Related Commentaries of Acts 7:48

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Acts 7:48