Acts Chapter 6 verse 15 Holy Bible
And all that sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
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And all those who were in the Sanhedrin, looking at him, saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
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And all who sat in the council, looking fixedly on him, saw his face as [the] face of an angel.
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And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
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All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.
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and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - Fastening their eyes for looking steadfastly, A.V. (see above, Acts 3:4). The council would naturally all look at him, in expectation of his answer to the evidence just delivered against him. In his face, illuminated with a Divine radiance, they had an answer which they would have done well to listen to (for the brightness of an angel's face, comp. Matthew 28:3; Daniel 10:6; Revelation 10:1, etc.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) Looking stedfastly on him.--St Luke's characteristic word. (See Note on Acts 1:10.)Saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.--We can scarcely be wrong in tracing this description to the impression made at the time on St. Paul, and reported by him to St. Luke. It must be interpreted by the account given of angels as appearing in the form of "young men" (Mark 16:5), and so throws some light upon St. Stephen's age, as being, probably, about the same standing as St. Paul, and implies that his face was lighted up as by the radiance of a divine brightness. The phrase seems to have been more or less proverbial. In the expanded version of the Book of Esther, which appears in the LXX., she says to the King, as in reverential awe, "I saw thee, O my lord, as an angel of God" (Esther 5:2). In 2Samuel 14:17, the words refer to the wisdom of David rather than to anything visible and outward. Here the impression left by St. Luke's narrative is that the face of St. Stephen was illumined at once with the glow of an ardent zeal and the serenity of a higher wisdom.
