Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then sent they in men which said, "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.

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.

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 And they could not resist the wisdom, and the spirit, with which he spake. 11 Then sent they in men which said, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God," 12 and they moved the people, and the elders, and the scribes: and they came upon him and caught him, and brought him to the council,

Cross References

Matthew 26:59-60

The chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, for to put him to death,

Leviticus 24:16

And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall die for it: all the multitude shall stone him to death. And the stranger as well as the Israelite if he curse the name, shall die for it.'

1 Kings 21:10-13

and set two unthrifties before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'Thou didst curse both God and the king.' And upon that carry him out and stone him to death."

Matthew 28:12-15

And they gathered them together with the elders, and took counsel, and gave large money unto the soldiers,

John 1:17

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 5:45-47

Do not think that I will accuse you to my father. There is one that accuseth you, even Moses in whom ye trust.

John 9:29

We are sure that God spake with Moses. This fellow we know not from whence he is."

John 10:33-36

The Jews answered him saying, "For thy good works' sake we stone thee not: but for thy blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God."

John 16:3

And such things will they do unto you, because they have not known the father, neither yet me.

Acts 6:13

and brought forth false witnesses which said, "This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law,

Acts 7:37-39

This is that Moses which said unto the children of Israel, 'A prophet shall the Lord God raise up unto you, of your brethren, like unto me: him shall ye hear.'

Acts 15:21

For Moses of old time in every city hath them that preach him, and he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath day."

Acts 18:6

And when they said contrary, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment and said unto them, "Your blood upon your own heads. And from henceforth I go blameless unto the gentiles."

Acts 21:20-22

And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, "Thou seest brother, how many thousand Jews there are which believe, and they are all zealous over the law.

Acts 21:28

"Men of Israel, help. This is the man that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover also he hath brought Greeks into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place."

Acts 23:12-15

When day was come, certain of the Jews gathered themselves together, and made a vow saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Acts 24:1-13

After five days, Ananias the high priest descended, with elders and with a certain orator named Tertullus, and informed the ruler of Paul.

Acts 25:3

and desired favour against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, and laid wait for him in the way to kill him.

Acts 25:7

When he was come, the Jews which were come from Jerusalem came about him and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul: which they could not prove

Acts 26:11

"And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme: and was yet more mad upon them, and persecuted them even unto strange cities.

Romans 3:8

And say not rather - as men evil-speak of us, and as some affirm that we say - "Let us do evil, that good may come thereof." Whose damnation is just.

1 Timothy 1:13

when before I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a tyrant. But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly, through unbelief:

Hebrews 3:2-5

which was faithful to him that made him even as was Moses in all his house.

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