“You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man, to be a malicious witness.
Acts 6:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Then they secretly instigated men, who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So they [secretly] instigated and instructed men to say, We have heard this man speak, using slanderous and abusive and blasphemous language against Moses and God. American Standard Version (1901) Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. Common English Bible Then they secretly enticed some people to claim, “We heard him insult Moses and God.” Catholic Public Domain Version Then they suborned men who were to claim that they had heard him speaking words of blasphemy against Moses and against God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then they suborned men to say, they had heard him speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God. |
“You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man, to be a malicious witness.
Then the priests and the prophets said to the princes and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”
When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans.”
He who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him; the sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
For from early generations Moses has had in every city those who preach him, for he is read every sabbath in the synagogues.”
And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be upon your heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching men everywhere against the people and the law and this place; moreover he also brought Greeks into the temple, and he has defiled this holy place.”
asking as a favor to have the man sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the way.
And when he had come, the Jews who had gone down from Jerusalem stood about him, bringing against him many serious charges which they could not prove.
And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme; and in raging fury against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.
And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,
and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law;
And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; but I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,