Acts 6:14

For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."

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In The King James Version

For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.

In Context

13and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law.

15All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.

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Cross References

Isaiah 66:1Thus says the Lord, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of house will you build to me? And what place shall be my rest?

Jeremiah 7:4Do not trust in lying words, saying, "The Lord's temple, The Lord's temple, The Lord's temple, are these."

Jeremiah 26:12Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, saying, "The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

Daniel 9:26After the sixty-two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and his end shall come with a flood, and until the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.

Micah 3:12Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field,and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble,and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

Zechariah 14:2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

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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