Acts 6:11

Then they privily sent men, that should say, that they [have] heard him saying words of blasphemy against Moses and God.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

10And they might not withstand the wisdom and the spirit, that (he) spake.

12And so they moved together the people, and the elder men (or the elders), and the scribes; and they came together, and took (hold of) him, and brought (him) into the council.

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:10and send ye (in) privily two men, the sons of Belial, against him, and say they (this) false witnessing, Naboth hath blessed God, and the king + 21:10 That is, ‘cursed’, as in the 2nd Chapter of Job, ‘Bless thou God, and die thou’; for the horror of cursing, (the) Jews signified it by the contrary name., that is, hath cursed; and lead ye out him, and stone ye him, and die he so. (and privately, or stealthily, send ye in two men, the sons of Belial, opposite him, and then say they this false witness against him, Naboth hath cursed God, and the king; and then lead ye him out, and stone ye him, and so he shall die.)

Matthew 28:12And when they were gathered together with the elder men, and had taken their counsel, they gave to the knights much money, (And when they were gathered together with the elders, and had made their plan, they gave the soldiers a lot of money,)

John 5:45Do not ye guess, that I am to accuse you with the Father; it is Moses that accuseth you, in whom ye hope.

John 10:33The Jews answered to him, We stone thee not of good work, but of blasphemy, (or We stone thee not for good works, but for thy blasphemy), and for thou, since thou art a man, makest thyself God.

Acts 6:13And they ordained false witnesses, that said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place, and the law.

Acts 15:21For Moses of (or from the) old times hath in all (the) cities them that preach him in (the) synagogues, whereby each sabbath he is read.

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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