Which of the prophets (τινα των προφητων). Jesus (Luke 11:47; Matthew 23:29–37) had charged them with this…

Which of the prophets, etc. The interrogative form here is a strong mode of saying that they had persecuted all the prophets. It was t…

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?—St. Stephen echoes, as it were, our Lord’s own words ([Reference Matthew 5…

Israel’s persecution and killing of her prophets is a recurrent theme in Jewish literature. The OT not only speaks of the sufferings of individual …

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted ?
&c.] Either by reviling and speaking all manner of evil of …

Stephen was going on, it seems, to show that the temple and the temple service must come to an end, and it would be the glory of both to give way t…