Acts 6:13 They produced false witnesses, who testified, "This fellow never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
They produced false witnesses, who testified, "This fellow never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.

English Standard Version
and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,

New American Standard Bible
They put forward false witnesses who said, "This man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the Law;

King James Bible
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They also presented false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

International Standard Version
They had false witnesses stand up and say, "This man never stops saying things against this Holy Place and against the Law.

American Standard Version
and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against this holy place, and the law:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law.

Darby Bible Translation
And they set false witnesses, saying, This man does not cease speaking words against the holy place and the law;

Young's Literal Translation
they set up also false witnesses, saying, 'This one doth not cease to speak evil sayings against this holy place and the law,

Cross References

Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

Matthew 24:15
When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoever reads, let him understand:)

Matthew 26:59
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

Acts 7:58
And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

Acts 21:28
Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teaches all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and has polluted this holy place.

Acts 25:8
While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

6:8-15 When they could not answer Stephen's arguments as a disputant, they prosecuted him as a criminal, and brought false witnesses against him. And it is next to a miracle of providence, that no greater number of religious persons have been murdered in the world, by the way of perjury and pretence of law, when so many thousands hate them, who make no conscience of false oaths. Wisdom and holiness make a man's face to shine, yet will not secure men from being treated badly. What shall we say of man, a rational being, yet attempting to uphold a religious system by false witness and murder! And this has been done in numberless instances. But the blame rests not so much upon the understanding, as upon the heart of a fallen creature, which is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Yet the servant of the Lord, possessing a clear conscience, cheerful hope, and Divine consolations, may smile in the midst of danger and death.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11-14. blasphemous words against Moses—doubtless referring to the impending disappearance of the whole Mosaic system.

and against God—This must refer to the supreme dignity and authority which he claimed for Christ, as the head of that new economy which was so speedily to supersede the old (compare Ac 7:56, 59, 60).