Acts 6:12 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹² And they stirred up the people, the elders and the teachers of the Law of Moses and searched for him, seized him and brought him before the Council.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² [Thus] they incited the people as well as the elders and the scribes, and they came upon Stephen and arrested him and took him before the council (Sanhedrin).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the council,

Common English Bible

¹² They stirred up the people, the elders, and the legal experts. They caught Stephen, dragged him away, and brought him before the Jerusalem Council.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And thus did they stir up the people and the elders and the scribes. And hurrying together, they seized him and brought him to the council.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And they stirred up the people, and the ancients, and the scribes; and running together, they took him, and brought him to the council.

Acts 6:12 Cross References

Matthew 26:57

And those who had arrested Jesus led Him away to the house of Caiaphas, the head priest, where the experts in the Law of Moses and the [Jewish] elders were gathered.

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you that every person who is angry toward his brother will be subject to judgment; and whoever calls his brother ‘stupid idiot’ is subject to [being sentenced by] the [Jewish] Council, and whoever says, ‘go to hell’ is subject to going to the fire of hell [himself].

Luke 20:1

And it happened on one of the days that Jesus was teaching people in the Temple and preaching the good news, that the leading priests and the experts in the Law of Moses, [along] with the [Jewish] elders, came to Him.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the devoted [non-Jewish] women who held respected positions, and the principal men of the city, by stirring up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and [succeeded] in running them out of the region.

Acts 14:2

But the Jews who did not obey [the Gospel message] incited the spirits of the [unconverted] Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Acts 17:13

But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that Paul was proclaiming the message of God at Berea also, they went there too, and incited and upset the crowds.

Acts 18:12

But when Gallio was magistrate of Achaia [i.e., the southern province of Greece] the Jews joined forces to attack Paul and brought him before the court of justice,

Acts 21:27

When the seven days [required by the vow] were almost completed, the Jews from Asia saw Paul in the Temple. They incited the whole crowd and took hold of him,

Acts 5:18

and arrested the apostles and put them in jail.

Acts 5:27

And so they brought them in [to their headquarters] to appear before the Council [for questioning]. The head priest spoke to them, [saying],

Acts 6:11

Then they enlisted men to say [i.e., to testify falsely against Stephen, verse 13], “We heard him criticizing Moses and [even] God.”