Commentaries on Acts 7:56

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And said, behold, I see the heavens opened,.... As they were at the baptism of Christ, [See comments on Matthew 3:16]: and the son of man standing at the right hand of God; he calls Jesus "the son of man"; a name by which he often called himself in his state of humiliation; and that though he was now glorified, it being the name of the Messiah in Psalms 80:17 as was well known to the Jews; and...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

When our Lord Jesus called his apostles out to be employed in services and sufferings for him, he told them that yet the last should be first, and the first last, which was remarkably fulfilled in St. Stephen and St. Paul, who were both of them late converts, in comparison of the apostles, and yet got the start of them both in services and sufferings; for God, in conferring honours and favours,...