Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
So they instigated men to say, "We have heard him speaking abusive words against Moses and God."
New American Standard Bible
Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.”
King James Version
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
Holman Bible
Then they persuaded some men to say, “We heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!”
International Standard Version
So they secretly got some men to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."
A Conservative Version
Then they instigated men who said, We have heard him speaking blasphemous sayings against Moses and God.
American Standard Version
Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
Amplified
Then [to attack him another way] they secretly instructed men to say, “We have heard this man [Stephen] speak blasphemous (slanderous, sacrilegious, abusive) words against Moses and against God.”
An Understandable Version
Then they enlisted men to say [i.e., to testify falsely against Stephen, verse 13], "We heard him criticizing Moses and [even] God."
Anderson New Testament
Then they instigated men to say: We have heard him speak impious words against Moses, and against God.
Bible in Basic English
Then they got men to say, He has said evil against Moses and against God, in our hearing.
Common New Testament
Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God."
Daniel Mace New Testament
they suborned men, who said, we have heard him speak irreverently of Moses, and of God.
Darby Translation
Then they suborned men, saying, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.
Godbey New Testament
Then they bribed men, saying, that we have heard him speaking words blasphemous against Moses and God.
Goodspeed New Testament
So they instigated people to say, "We have heard him use abusive language about Moses and about God."
John Wesley New Testament
Then they suborned men who said, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and against God.
Julia Smith Translation
Then they put under men, saying, That we have heard him speaking defaming words against Moses, and God.
King James 2000
Then they bribed men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!"
Modern King James verseion
And they induced men to be saying, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then sent they in men which said, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God,"
Moffatt New Testament
They then instigated people to say, "We have heard him talking blasphemy against Moses and God."
Montgomery New Testament
Then they instigated some to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemy against Moses and against God;" and in this way they excited the people.
NET Bible
Then they secretly instigated some men to say, "We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."
New Heart English Bible
Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."
Noyes New Testament
Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and God.
Sawyer New Testament
Then they bribed men who said, We heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.
The Emphasized Bible
Then, they set on men who were saying - We have heard him speaking profane things against Moses and God.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Then they suborned men to say, We heard him speak blasphemous things against Moses, and against God.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Then they induced some men to assert that they had heard Stephen saying blasphemous things against Moses, and against God;
Webster
Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
Weymouth New Testament
Then they privately put forward men who declared, "We have heard him speak blasphemous things against Moses and against God."
World English Bible
Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God."
Worrell New Testament
Then they suborned men, who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and against God."
Worsley New Testament
Then they suborned men to say, we heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.
Youngs Literal Translation
then they suborned men, saying -- 'We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.'
Themes
false Accusation » Incidents illustrative of » Against stephen
Blasphemy » Charged upon saints
Blasphemy » False indictments for » Stephen
False teachers » Instances of » Witnesses » Against stephen
Falsehood » Instances of » Stephen's accusers, who falsely accused him of blaspheming moses and God
Greece » Inhabitants of » Persecute the early Christians
Indictments » Instances of » Stephen for blasphemy
religious Intolerance » The jewish leaders » In persecuting stephen
Jerusalem » Stephen martyred at
the Law of moses » The jews » Accused Christians of speaking
Perjury » Instances of » Stephen
Persecution » Instances of » Of stephen
Slander » Exemplified » Enemies of stephen
Stephen » False charges against
Topics
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 6:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Stephen Arrested
10 but they could not cope with his good practical sense and the spiritual power with which he usually spoke. 11 So they instigated men to say, "We have heard him speaking abusive words against Moses and God." 12 By this means they excited the people, the elders, and the scribes, and so they rushed upon him, seized him, and brought him before the council.
Phrases
Cross References
Matthew 26:59-60
Now the high priests and the whole council were trying to get false testimony against Jesus, to have Him put to death;
Matthew 28:12-15
So they met and held a consultation with the elders, and bribed the soldiers with a large sum of money,
John 1:17
For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.
John 5:45-47
Do not be thinking that I am going to accuse you to the Father. You have your accuser; it is Moses on whom you have set your hopes!
John 9:29
We do know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."
John 10:33-36
The Jews retorted, "It is not for a good deed but for blasphemy we are going to stone you; namely, because you, although a mere man, claim to be God."
John 16:3
They will do this, because they have never come to know God nor me.
Acts 6:13
Then they put up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops saying things against this holy place and against the law,
Acts 7:37-39
It was this Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among you, just as He did me.'
Acts 15:21
For Moses from the ancient generations has had his preachers in every town, and on every sabbath has been read aloud in the synagogues."
Acts 18:6
But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, "Your blood be upon your own heads! I am not to blame for it myself. Hereafter I am going to the heathen."
Acts 21:20-22
They gave the glory to God, when they heard it, and said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous champions of the law.
Acts 21:28
as they kept shouting, "Men of Israel, help! help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the law and this place; yea, more than that, he has actually brought Greeks into the temple and desecrated this sacred place."
Acts 23:12-15
After day had dawned, the Jews formed a conspiracy and took an oath not to eat or drink till they had killed Paul.
Acts 24:1-13
Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a prosecuting attorney, Tertullus, and through him they presented their case against Paul before the governor.
Acts 25:3
and begged the governor as a favor to have Paul come to Jerusalem, because they were plotting an ambush to kill him on the way.
Acts 25:7
When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and continued to bring a number of serious charges against him, none of which they could prove.
Acts 26:11
I had them punished and tried to force them to use abusive language; in my extreme fury against them I continued to pursue them even into distant towns.
Romans 3:8
Why should we not say, as people abusively say of us, and charge us with actually saying, "Let us do evil that good may come from it"? Their condemnation is just.
1 Timothy 1:13
though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult Him. But mercy was shown me by Him, because I did it in ignorance and unbelief,
Hebrews 3:2-5
to see how faithful He was to God who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all the house of God.