Acts 6:13
11 Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
12 So they stirred up the people, elders, and scribes and confronted Stephen. They seized him and brought him before the Sanhedrin,
where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
14 For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
15 All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
- KJV
- And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
- WEB
- and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
- ASV
- and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against this holy place, and the law:
- DARBY
- And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law;
- BLB
- And they set up false witnesses, saying, “This man does not stop speaking words against this holy place and the law.
- ÅB
- og stilte fram falske vitner som sa: Dette menneske holder ikke opp med å tale mot det hellige sted og mot loven;
- OTB
- De satte opp falske vitner som vitnet: “Denne mannen slutter aldri å tale mot dette hellige stedet og loven.
- B1930
- og stilte frem falske vidner som sa: Dette menneske holder ikke op med å tale mot det hellige sted og mot loven;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 6:11
Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”
Read in contextActs 21:28
crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
Read in contextPsalms 56:5
All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
Read in contextPsalms 27:12
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
Read in contextMatthew 24:15
So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),
Read in contextActs 7:58
They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Read in contextActs 25:8
Then Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”
Read in contextPsalms 35:11
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
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