Acts 6:11

Defeated in argument, his opponents secretly bribe men to accuse Stephen of blasphemy against Moses and God. Lies are enlisted where truth has failed.

Cross-references · 23

• Matt 26:59–60Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
• 1 Kgs 21:10–13But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
• John 5:45–47Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
• John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
• Acts 25:7When Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they could not prove.
• Heb 3:2–5He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
• Acts 21:28crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”
• Acts 23:12–15When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
• Matt 28:12–15And after the chief priests had met with the elders and formed a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money
• 1 Tim 1:13I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
• Acts 21:20–22When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
• Acts 15:21For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
• Acts 7:37–39This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
• Acts 25:3to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• Acts 24:1–13Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.
• Acts 6:13where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
• Acts 18:6But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
• Rom 3:8Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!
• John 9:29We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.”
• Lev 24:16Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.
• Acts 26:11I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
• John 10:33–36“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.”

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