Acts 7:50
48 However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
49 ‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?
Has not My hand made all these things?’
51 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
52 Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Has not My hand made all these things?’
- KJV
- Hath not my hand made all these things?
- WEB
- Didn’t my hand make all these things?’
- ASV
- Did not my hand make all these things?
- DARBY
- has not my hand made all these things?
- BLB
- Did not My hand make all these things?’
- ÅB
- Har ikke min hånd gjort alt dette?
- OTB
- Er det ikke min hånd som har laget alle disse tingene?’
- B1930
- Har ikke min hånd gjort alt dette?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 32:17
“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
Read in contextIsaiah 66:2
Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
Read in contextPsalms 33:6–9
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
Read in contextIsaiah 45:12
It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.
Read in contextExodus 20:11
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
Read in contextPsalms 50:9–12
I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
Read in contextPsalms 146:5–6
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
Read in contextJeremiah 10:11
Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”
Read in context