Acts 7:56 Parallel Translations

So Stephen said, "Look, I see heaven opened and the Son of Man in the position of authority that God has given him!"(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

ASV:

and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.

BBE:

And he said, Now I see heaven open, and the Son of man at the right hand of God.

DBY:

and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.

ERV:

and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

WEY:

"I can see Heaven wide open," he said, "and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand."

WBS:

And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

WEB:

and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"

YLT:

and he said, 'Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.'

Acts 7:56 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 8:20 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."

John 1:51 And He said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

7:56 I see the Son of man standing - As if it were just ready to receive him. Otherwise he is said to sit at the right hand of God.

MHC:

7:54-60 Nothing is so comfortable to dying saints, or so encouraging to suffering saints, as to see Jesus at the right hand of God: blessed be God, by faith we may see him there. Stephen offered up two short prayers in his dying moments. Our Lord Jesus is God, to whom we are to seek, and in whom we are to trust and comfort ourselves, living and dying. And if this has been our care while we live, it will be our comfort when we die. Here is a prayer for his persecutors. Though the sin was very great, yet if they would lay it to their hearts, God would not lay it to their charge. Stephen died as much in a hurry as ever any man did, yet, when he died, the words used are, he fell asleep; he applied himself to his dying work with as much composure as if he had been going to sleep. He shall awake again in the morning of the resurrection, to be received into the presence of the Lord, where is fulness of joy, and to share the pleasures that are at his right hand, for evermore.

CONC:

Behold God's Heaven Heavens Open Opened Standing Wide

God God's Hand Heaven Heavens Open Opened Right Standing Wide

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