Acts 7:57 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵⁷Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

Acts 7:57 —

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Cross-References

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Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Acts 23:27
This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
Acts 7:54
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
Acts 21:27-31
And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, …

Topics

Bigotry Hatred Intolerance, Religious Malice Retaliation Revenge Stephen Vengeance

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 57)

57-58. Then they cried out ... and ran upon him with one accord--To men of their mould and in their temper, Stephen’s last seraphic words could but bring matters to extremities, though that only revealed the diabolical spirit which they breathed.