“To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,”
When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him - the response to Stephen's speech is visceral rage: 'furious and gnashed their teeth' (dieprionto tais odousin, cut to the heart and grinding their teeth). Luke echoes Jesus's words about weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matt. 13:42, 50). The Sanhedrin's reaction proves Stephen's point: they are resisting the Spirit even as he speaks.
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