Acts 6:11

Then they instigated some to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemy against Moses and against God;" and in this way they excited the people.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

In Context

10but were unable to withstand the wisdom and spirit with which he used to speak.

12The elders and the scribes rushed upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the Sanhedrin.

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Cross References

Matthew 28:12And when they had met with the elders and conferred together, they heavily bribed the soldiers and told them to say,

John 5:45"Do not imagine that I shall accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser, on whom you build your hopes.

John 10:33"We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

Acts 6:13They also set up false witnesses who testified. "This fellow is continually talking against the Holy Place and against the law.

Acts 15:21"For Moses from the earliest times has had his preachers in every town where he is read aloud, Sabbath after Sabbath, in the synagogues."

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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