Parallel Verses

Common New Testament

Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against 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.

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."

Williams New Testament

So they instigated men to say, "We have heard him speaking abusive words against Moses and 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.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
τότε 
Tote 
then, that time, when, not tr
Usage: 105

ὑποβάλλω 
Hupoballo 
Usage: 1

men
ἀνήρ 
Aner 
man, husband, sir, fellow, not tr
Usage: 198

λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

We have heard
ἀκούω 
Akouo 
Usage: 313

him

Usage: 0

λαλέω 
Laleo 
Usage: 235

βλάσφημος 
Blasphemos 
Usage: 5

ῥῆμα 
Rhema 
word, saying, thing, no thing Trans, not tr
Usage: 57

εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

Μωσεύς Μωσῆς Μωΰσῆς 
Moseus 
Usage: 60

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

References

American

Fausets

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Stephen Arrested

10 But they could not stand against the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke. 11 Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God." 12 They stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came on him and seized him, and brought him before the council.

Cross References

Matthew 26:59-60

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

Matthew 28:12-15

When they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

John 1:17

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

John 5:45-47

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope.

John 9:29

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

John 10:33-36

The Jews answered him, "For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God."

John 16:3

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

Acts 6:13

They put forward false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking against this holy place, and the law;

Acts 7:37-39

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

Acts 15:21

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

Acts 18:6

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

Acts 21:20-22

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,

Acts 21:28

crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place; and besides he also brought Greeks into the temple, and he has defiled this holy place."

Acts 23:12-15

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

Acts 24:1-13

After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders, with an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought their charges against Paul before the governor.

Acts 25:3

as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

Acts 25:7

And when Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges against him, which they could not prove.

Acts 26:11

And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Romans 3:8

Why not say as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.

1 Timothy 1:13

Even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor, I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

Hebrews 3:2-5

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

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