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

Romans 3:8

Blasphemous

1 Timothy 1:13

Against moses

General references

Acts 24:9

Bible References

They

In the morning, the Jews made a conspiracy and took an oath not to eat or drink till they had killed Paul.

Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down with some of the elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they presented their case against Paul before the governor.

and begged him as a favor to order Paul to come to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.

Now the high priests and the whole council were trying to get false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.

And they got together and consulted with the elders, and gave the soldiers a large sum of money,

They will do this because they do not know the Father or me.

And why not say, as people abuse us for saying and charge us with saying, "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such people will be condemned as they deserve!

Blasphemous

Then they brought forward false witnesses, who said, "This man is constantly saying things against this holy place and against the Law,

But as they contradicted and abused him, he shook his clothes in protest, and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not to blame for it! After this I will go to the heathen."

and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns.

The Jews answered, "We are not stoning you for doing anything good, but for your impious talk, and because you, a mere man, make yourself out to be God."

though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult him. But he had mercy on me, because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief,

Against moses

This was the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will make a prophet rise from among your brothers to teach you, just as he made me rise.'

For Moses for generations past has had his preachers in every town, and has been read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath."

They praised God when they heard it, and they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous upholders of the Law.

Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser??oses, on whom you have fixed your hopes!

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man came from."

has been to the God who appointed him, just as Moses was, in all the house of God.

General references

The Jews also joined in these charges, and said that the statement was true.