Acts 6:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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, And they - The Libertines, etc., mentioned before, stirred up the people - raised a mob against him, and, to assist and countenance the mob, got the elders and scribes to conduct it, who thus made themselves one with the basest of the people, whom they collected; and then, altogether, without law or form of justice, rushed on the good man, seized him, and brought him to a council who, though they sat in the seat of judgment, were ready for every evil work.