Acts 6:13

they also set up false witnesses, saying, “This one does not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the Law,

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In The King James Version

And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

In Context

12They also stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come on [him], they caught him, and brought [him] to the Sanhedrin;

14for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarean will overthrow this place, and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us”;

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Cross References

Psalms 27:12Do not give me to the will of my adversaries, || For false witnesses have risen against me, || And they breathe out violence to me.

Psalms 56:5All the day they wrest my words, || All their thoughts [are] for evil concerning me,

Acts 6:11then they suborned men, saying, “We have heard him speaking slanderous sayings in regard to Moses and God.”

Acts 21:28crying out, “Men, Israelites, help! This is the man who, against the people, and the Law, and this place, is teaching all everywhere; and further, also, he brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place”;

Hebrews 7:12For the priesthood being changed, of necessity also, a change comes of the Law,

Matthew Henry on Acts 6:9-15

Stephen's Address. 8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. 9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. 10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. 11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. 12 And they stirred up the… Read the whole commentary →

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