Acts 7:48

Yet the Most High ¹  does not live in houses made by human hands, ²  as the prophet says,

De 32:8; 1Ki 8:27; 2Ch 2:5,6; 2Ch 6:18; Ps 7:17; Ps 46:4; Ps 91:1,9; Ps 92:8; Isa 66:1,2; Da 4:17,24,25,34; Ho 7:16; Ac 17:24,25

¹ sn The title the Most High points to God’s majesty (Heb 7:1; Luke 1:32, 35; Acts 16:7).

² sn The phrase made by human hands is negative in the NT: Mark 14:58; Acts 17:24; Eph 2:11; Heb 9:11, 24. It suggests “man-made” or “impermanent.” The rebuke is like parts of the Hebrew scripture where the rebuke is not of the temple, but for making too much of it (1 Kgs 8:27; Isa 57:15; 1 Chr 6:8; Jer 7:1-34).