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1Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

Acts 7:1

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine. …

  • And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. …

  • Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? …

  • And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: …

  • We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

Stephen is now at the bar before the great council of the nation, indicted for blasphemy: what the witnesses swore against him we had an account of in the foregoing chapter, that he spoke blasphemous words against Moses and God; for he spoke against this holy place and the law. Now here, I. The high priest calls upon him to answer for himself, Acts 7:1. He was president, and, as such, the mouth of…

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