Acts 6:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. ”

• Acts 6:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Then they suborned men - To suborn in law means to procure a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury (Webster). It has substantially this sense here. It means that they induced th...

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• Acts 6:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Attack on Stephen. This Hellenist Christian draws upon himself the attention of the people. He was full of grace; the inspiration which gave him his power led to disturbance from a synagogue or syn...

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• Acts 6:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  suborned. Greek. hupoballo. Only here. blasphemous. Greek. blasphemos. Here, Act 6:13. 1 Timothy 1:13 . 2Ti 3:2. 2 Peter 2:11 . words. Greek. rhema. See note on Mark 9:32 . Moses....

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• Acts 6:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. Then they suborned men - Ὑπεβαλον. They made underhand work; got associated to themsel...

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• Acts 6:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Blasphemous words against Moses, &c.— There is no reason to believe that Stephen knew the mystery of the abolition of the Mosaic law, which the apostles do not seem immediately to have understo...

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• Acts 6:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. Then they suborned, х hupebalon ( G5260 )]. This is the proper sense of the w...

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• Acts 6:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Stephen and the Seven 1-7. The Hebrew-speaking Jews, who were in a majority in the Church of Jerusalem, were inclined to despise and neglect the minority who spoke Greek. In particular, the Greek-...

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• Acts 6:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. — The words indicate with sufficient clearness the nature of Stephen’s teaching. The charge was a false one, but its falsehood was a distortion of...

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• Acts 6:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 11 HONESTY AND PRETENCE IN THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH Acts 4:36-37 ; Acts 6:1-6 THE exact period in the history of the apostolic Church at which we have now arrived is a most interesting o...

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• Acts 6:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Meeting Murmuring within and Persecution Without Acts 6:1-15 The Grecians here mentioned were Jews who had lived abroad and spoke Greek. There were as yet no Gentiles in the Church. It was rega...

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• Acts 6:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The story alternates between the opposition of the outside crowd and the condition of the Church in its own borders. A difficulty arose concerning the distribution of relief which had a national tone...

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• Acts 6:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. (9) Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, a...

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• Acts 6:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then they suborned men ,.... Hired false witnesses, which seems to have been commonly done by the Jews; so they did in the case of Christ: which said, we have heard him speak blasphemous words aga...

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• Acts 6:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. Ver. 11. Then they suborned ] This they had learned of that old manslayer, John 8:4...

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• Acts 6:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then they suborned men As they found they were incapable of defending themselves by fair argument, they had recourse to a most mean and dishonest fraud; they suborned men to bear false witness ag...

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• Acts 6:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  A second time, however, difficulty arises from within Satan's enmity from without was clearly evident. In Ch.5.1-3 Satan had sought to underhandedly get in among the saints, but this had been exposed...

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• Acts 6:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Stephen's Address.       8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.   9 Then there arose ce...

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• Acts 6:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  What these blasphemous words were, we have, Acts 6:14 ; which show, that the veil was yet over their hearts, and that they could not endure to hear, that the shadows must flee away when the sun...

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• Acts 6:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Preaching and Martyrdom of Stephen (6:8-7:60). It is one of the exciting things about serving God that we never know what He is going to do next. In Acts 6:1-7 the Apostles had rid themselve...

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• Acts 6:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 6:8 . Faith .—According to the best texts should be grace ( Acts 4:33 ); the change having probably been made to correspond with Acts 6:5 . Acts 6:9 . The synagogue w...

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• Acts 6:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Acts 6 ; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of...

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• Acts 6:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Acts 6:1 . A murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews. The original word here rendered Grecians is Hellenists; from Hellen, son of Deucalion, king of Thessalia, who was drowned during the i...

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• Acts 6:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. The last first I. The points in which Stephen was last. 1. His position was entirely subordinate. The d...

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• Acts 6:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 6:1 Now in these for and in those, A.V. (it is not ἐκείναις , answering to מהֵהָ מימַיָבַּ, but ταύταις); multiplying for multiplied, A.V. ; Grecian Jews for G...

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• Acts 6:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Testimony of Stephen. Acts 6:9-15

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• Acts 6:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 21:10 ; 1 Kings 21:10-13 ; 1 Kings 21:13 ; 1 Timothy 1:13 ; Acts 15:21 ; Acts 21:20-22 ; Acts 21:28 ; Acts 23:12-15 ; Acts 24:1-13 ; Acts 25:3 ; Acts 25:7 ; Acts 7:37-39 ; Acts 1...

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• Acts 6:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Obedient to the Faith Acts 6:1-14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS May we tarry a while to study The Business Side of Church Life. Our text ( Acts 6:3 ) says that there are three requirements: (1) Honest r...

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