Acts 7:54 - Forerunner Commentary

Acts 7:54

52 ^aWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of ^bthe Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

53 ^awho have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.”

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54 ^aWhen they heard these things they were¹ cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

55 But he, ^abeing full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the ^bglory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

56 and said, “Look! ^aI see the heavens opened and the ^bSon of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

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

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I mean, even that description shows that they had gone from people listening to somebody speak to wild beasts. They were animals at this point. That is what animals do. If you see the wolves in, let us say, a western, and what are they doing? They are going [snarling, growling sound]. But they snarl and they gnash their teeth at the cowboy who is in distress or whatever. Well, that is how these Jews were acting.

Excerpted from Handwriting on the Wall (2025): Brutality

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