54When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
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When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 54-60)We have here the death of the first martyr of the Christian church, and there is in this story a lively instance of the outrage and fury of the persecutors (such as we may expect to meet with if we are called out to suffer for Christ), and of the courage and comfort of the persecuted, that are thus called out. Here is hell in its fire and darkness, and heaven in its light and brightness; and these…
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