Acts 7:54

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Stephen is Killed When they heard these things, they became furious and ground their teeth at him.

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  • Acts 5:33 : 33 Now when they heard this, they became furious and wanted to execute them.
  • Job 16:9 : 9 His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.
  • Ps 35:16 : 16 When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.
  • Ps 112:10 : 10 When the wicked see this, they will worry; they will grind their teeth in frustration and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 פ(Pe) All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said,“We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!”
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
  • Matt 13:42 : 42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 13:50 : 50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 22:13 : 13 Then the king said to his attendants,‘Tie him up hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!’
  • Matt 24:51 : 51 and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 25:30 : 30 And throw that worthless slave into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
  • Luke 13:28 : 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out.
  • Acts 22:22-23 : 22 The Roman Commander Questions Paul The crowd was listening to him until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted,“Away with this man from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!” 23 While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,

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  • 33 Now when they heard this, they became furious and wanted to execute them.

  • Acts 7:55-58
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    55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

    56 “Look!” he said.“I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

    57 But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.

    58 When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

  • Luke 4:28-29
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    28 When they heard this, all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage.

    29 They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.

  • 37 The Response to Peter’s Address Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,“What should we do, brothers?”

  • Acts 7:51-53
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    51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

    52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!

    53 You received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it.”

  • Acts 6:10-12
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    10 Yet they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

    11 Then they secretly instigated some men to say,“We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

    12 They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.

  • 5 When both the Gentiles and the Jews(together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

  • 12 Evil men plot against the godly and viciously attack them.

  • 15 All who were sitting in the council looked intently at Stephen and saw his face was like the face of an angel.

  • 42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • 50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • 27 When they had brought them, they stood them before the council, and the high priest questioned them,

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    15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,

    16 because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.

  • 22 The Roman Commander Questions Paul The crowd was listening to him until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted,“Away with this man from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!”

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    53 When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

    54 plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.

  • 45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.

  • 2 (When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,

  • 8 They caused confusion among the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.

  • 16 When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.

  • 11 But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.

  • 22 The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

  • 67 Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,

  • 12 Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond, so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had poured out great wrath.

  • 17 Further Trouble for the Apostles Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him(that is, the religious party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

  • 51 and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • 8 They say to themselves,“We will oppress all of them.” They burn down all the places where people worship God in the land.

  • 15 But when they had ordered them to go outside the council, they began to confer with one another,

  • 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out.

  • Acts 4:7-8
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    7 After making Peter and John stand in their midst, they began to inquire,“By what power or by what name did you do this?”

    8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, replied,“Rulers of the people and elders,

  • 6 Now some of the experts in the law were sitting there, turning these things over in their minds:

  • 21 After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.

  • 40 and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

  • 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”

  • 37 They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

  • 51 So after they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them, they went to Iconium.

  • 2 At that the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

  • 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.

  • 5 After looking around at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man,“Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

  • 2 angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.