For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Acts 6:11 - The Text-Critical English New Testament Then they induced some men to say, “We heard Stephen speaking blasphemous words against Moses and against God.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he is from.”
For from generations of old, Moses has had those who preach him in every city, because he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
But when the Jews opposed him and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be upon your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. Furthermore, he has even brought Greeks into the inner courts of the temple and has defiled this holy place.”
Asking for a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.
When Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges against him that they could not prove.
I also punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. And being furiously enraged against them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.
But they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.
They also stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes. So they came up to Stephen, seized him, and brought him to the Sanhedrin.
Then they put forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against the holy place and against the law.
And why not say (just as some slanderously claim that we say), “Let us do evil that good may come”? Their condemnation is just.
even though I was formerly a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent man. But I received mercy because I had ignorantly acted in unbelief,