Acts 6:11

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Summary

Acts 6:11

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

They

Blasphemous

1 Timothy 1:13

Against moses

Hebrews 3:2

General references

Acts 24:9

Bible References

They

When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a spokesman, one Tertullus. They laid before the governor their case against Paul.

asking as a favor against Paul that he summon him to Jerusalem--because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.

And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, 'You have cursed God and the king.' Then take him out and stone him to death."

Now the chief priests and the whole Councilwere seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,

And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers

And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

And why not do evil that good may come?--as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

Blasphemous

and they set up false witnesses who said, "This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,

And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, 'You have cursed God and the king.' Then take him out and stone him to death."

The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God."

though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Against moses

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.'

For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues."

And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from."

who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house.

General references

The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all these things were so.