Acts 7:59 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵⁹And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Acts 7:59 —

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Cross-References

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Luke 23:46
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Psalms 31:5
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
Acts 22:16
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Joel 2:32
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Acts 2:21
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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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. 59)

59-60. calling upon God and saying, Lord Jesus, &c.--An unhappy supplement of our translators is the word “God” here; as if, while addressing the Son, he was really calling upon the Father. The sense is perfectly clear without any supplement at all--“calling upon [invoking] and saying, Lord Jesus”; Christ being the Person directly invoked and addressed by name (compare Ac 9:14). Even Grotius, De W…