Acts Chapter 6 verse 11 Holy Bible
Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and `against' God.
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Then they got men to say, He has said evil against Moses and against God, in our hearing.
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Then they suborned men, saying, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.
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Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
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Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."
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then they suborned men, saying -- `We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Then they suborned, etc. The resource of those who are worsted in argument is violence or treachery. Blasphemous words against Moses. It must be remembered that at this time the whole Jewish people were in a state of ill-suppressed frenzy and most sensitive jealousy for the honor of the Mosaic institutions - feelings which broke out in constant revolts against the Roman power. The accusation against the apostles of speaking blasphemies against Moses was therefore the most likely one they could have pitched upon to stir up ill will against them.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.--The words indicate with sufficient clearness the nature of Stephen's teaching. The charge was a false one, but its falsehood was a distortion of the truth, as that against our Lord had been. He was accused of blasphemy in calling Himself the Son of God; making Himself equal with God (Matthew 26:63; John 5:18); threatening to destroy the Temple (Matthew 26:61)--each of the counts in the indictment resting on words that He had actually spoken. And Stephen, in like manner, was charged with offences for which there must have seemed colourable ground. He had taught, we must believe, that the days of the Temple were numbered; that with its fall the form of worship of which it was the representative would pass away, that the Law given by Moses was to make way for the higher revelation in Christ, and the privileges of the elect nation to be merged in the blessings of the universal Church. In this case, accordingly, the antagonism comes, not only or chiefly, as in the previous chapters, from the Sadducean high priests and their followers, but from the whole body of scribes and people. Pharisees and Sadducees, Hebrews and Hellenistae, are once more brought into coalition against the new truth.
