Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Then they secretly instigated some men to say, "We have heard this man speaking blasphemous 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.
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.'
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 Yet they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke. 11 Then they secretly instigated some men to say, "We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God." 12 They incited the people, the elders, and the experts in the law; then they approached Stephen, seized him, and brought him before the council.
Phrases
Cross References
Matthew 26:59-60
The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to find false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death.
Leviticus 24:16
and one who misuses the name of the Lord must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.
1 Kings 21:10-13
Also seat two villains opposite him and have them testify, 'You cursed God and the king.' Then take him out and stone him to death."
Matthew 28:12-15
After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,
John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.
John 5:45-47
"Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.
John 9:29
We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!"
John 10:33-36
The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."
John 16:3
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
Acts 6:13
They brought forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop saying things 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 among your brothers.'
Acts 15:21
For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath."
Acts 18:6
When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!"
Acts 21:20-22
When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all ardent observers of the law.
Acts 21:28
shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this sanctuary! Furthermore he has brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and made this holy place ritually unclean!"
Acts 23:12-15
When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.
Acts 24:1-13
After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought formal charges against Paul to the governor.
Acts 25:3
Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.
Acts 25:7
When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they were not able to prove.
Acts 26:11
I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.
Romans 3:8
And why not say, "Let us do evil so that good may come of it"? -- as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)
1 Timothy 1:13
even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,
Hebrews 3:2-5
who is faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses was also in God's house.