Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
for we have heard him saying, This Jesus the Nazaraean shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses taught us.
New American Standard Bible
for we have heard him say that
King James Version
For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
Holman Bible
For we heard him say that Jesus, this Nazarene, will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
International Standard Version
For we have heard him say that this Jesus from Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."
A Conservative Version
For we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.
American Standard Version
for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered unto us.
Amplified
for we have heard him say that this Jesus the Nazarene will tear down this place and will change the traditions and customs which Moses handed down to us.”
An Understandable Version
for we [ourselves] heard him saying that this Jesus from Nazareth would destroy the Temple and change the customs handed down to us by Moses."
Anderson New Testament
For we have heard him say, that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.
Bible in Basic English
For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.
Common New Testament
for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses handed down to us."
Daniel Mace New Testament
for we have heard him say, that Jesus the Nazarene shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses delivered us.
Godbey New Testament
for we have heard him saying, that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses delivered unto us.
Goodspeed New Testament
for we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will tear this place down and change the customs that have been handed down to us by Moses."
John Wesley New Testament
For we have heard him say, That Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and change the rites which Moses delivered us.
Julia Smith Translation
For we have heard him saying; That Jesus the Nazarite shall abolish this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered to us.
King James 2000
For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered to us.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For we have heard him saying that this Nazarene Jesus will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed down to us."
Modern King James verseion
For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered to us.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for we heard him say, 'This Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the ordinances which Moses gave unto us.'"
Moffatt New Testament
Why, we have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this Place and change the customs handed down to us by Moses!"
Montgomery New Testament
"For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which were handed down to us by Moses."
NET Bible
For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."
New Heart English Bible
For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."
Noyes New Testament
For we have heard him say, This Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses delivered to us.
Sawyer New Testament
for we have heard him say, that Jesus this Nazoraean will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses gave us.
The Emphasized Bible
For we have heard him saying - This Jesus the Nazarene, will overthrow this place, and will change the customs which, Moses, delivered unto us.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
for we have heard him affirm, that Jesus the Nazarean, even he, will destroy this place, and change the accustomed ordinances which Moses delivered to us.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Indeed, we have heard him declare that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this Place, and change the customs handed down to us by Moses."
Webster
For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.
Weymouth New Testament
For we have heard him say that Jesus, the Nazarene, will pull this place down to the ground and will change the customs which Moses handed down to us."
Williams New Testament
for we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will tear this place down, and change the customs which Moses handed down to us."
World English Bible
For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."
Worrell New Testament
for we have heard him say, that This Jesus, the Nazarene, will overthrow this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."
Worsley New Testament
For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and change the rites which Moses delivered to us.
Youngs Literal Translation
for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;'
Themes
Falsehood » Instances of » Stephen's accusers, who falsely accused him of blaspheming moses and God
Greece » Inhabitants of » Persecute the early Christians
religious Intolerance » The jewish leaders » In persecuting stephen
Jerusalem » Stephen martyred at
Jews, the » National character of » Attachment to customs of the law
the Law of moses » The jews » Accused Christians of speaking
Perjury » Instances of » Stephen
Persecution » Instances of » Of stephen
Priest » Miscellaneous facts concerning » Put on trial, condemn, and stone stephen
Interlinear
Houtos
τοῦτον
Touton
Usage: 50
Kataluo
References
Morish
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 6:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Stephen Arrested
13 And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law; 14 for we have heard him saying, This Jesus the Nazaraean shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses taught us. 15 And all who sat in the council, looking fixedly on him, saw his face as the face of an angel.
Phrases
Cross References
Daniel 9:26
And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war, the desolations determined.
Acts 15:1
And certain persons, having come down from Judaea, taught the brethren, If ye shall not have been circumcised according to the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Acts 21:21
And they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses, saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk in the customs.
Isaiah 65:15
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto mine elect; for the Lord Jehovah will slay thee, and will call his servants by another name:
Isaiah 66:1-6
Thus saith Jehovah: The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what is the house that ye will build unto me? and what is the place of my rest?
Isaiah 66:19-21
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow; to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory: and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Jeremiah 7:4-14
Confide ye not in words of falsehood, saying, Jehovah's temple, Jehovah's temple, Jehovah's temple is this.
Jeremiah 26:6-9
then will I make This house like Shiloh, And will make This city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Jeremiah 26:12
And Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
Jeremiah 26:18
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without statue, and without ephod and teraphim.
Micah 3:12
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Zechariah 11:1
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Zechariah 14:2
And I will assemble all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity; and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Matthew 24:1-2
And Jesus went forth and went away from the temple, and his disciples came to him to point out to him the buildings of the temple.
Matthew 26:61
and said, He said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and in three days build it.
Mark 14:58
We heard him saying, I will destroy this temple which is made with hands, and in the course of three days I will build another not made with hands.
Luke 13:34-35
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not.
Luke 21:6
As to these things which ye are beholding, days are coming in which there shall not be left stone upon stone which shall not be thrown down.
Luke 21:24
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations until the times of the nations be fulfilled.
John 4:21
Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father.
Acts 25:8
Paul answering for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I offended in anything.
Acts 26:3
especially because thou art acquainted with all the customs and questions which are among the Jews; wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Acts 28:17
And it came to pass after three days, that he called together those who were the chief of the Jews; and when they had come together he said to them, Brethren, I having done nothing against the people or the customs of our forefathers, have been delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
Galatians 3:19
Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator.
Galatians 3:23
But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith which was about to be revealed.
Galatians 4:3-5
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;
Hebrews 7:11-19
If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with it, what need was there still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?
Hebrews 8:6-13
But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.
Hebrews 9:9-11
the which is an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,
Hebrews 10:1-18
For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.
Hebrews 12:26-28
whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet once will I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.