Acts 7
BSB
Commentaries

Show in the text

Up to 5 commentaries at a time. Each excerpt opens in full.

ModeText only

Berean Standard Bible

Acts 7:44-54

44Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen. 45And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David, 46who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.1 47But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.

48However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

49‘Heaven is My throneand the earth is My footstool.What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord,or where will My place of repose be?50Has not My hand made all these things?’2

51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did. 52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers— 53you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged,3 and they gnashed their teeth at him.

Read all of Acts 7

Notes

  1. 1. Acts 7:46 SBL, WH, BYZ, and TR; see also LXX for Psalm 132:5; ECM and NE a dwelling place for the house of Jacob. ↩
  2. 2. Acts 7:50 Isaiah 66:1–2 ↩
  3. 3. Acts 7:54 Literally On hearing these things, they were cut in their hearts, ↩

Commentaries on Acts 7

Berean Standard Bible — © Berean Bible — CC0 / Public Domain