False witnesses (μαρτυρας ψευδεις). Just as Caiaphas did with Jesus.

Ceaseth not (ου παυετα). Wild charge …

And set up false witnesses. The question has been raised why these people are called false witnesses, since many suppose that the…

Against this holy place.—The new feature of Stephen’s preaching comes into greater prominence.

Four things are said about certain members of the synagogue of the Freedman: (1) “they secretly persuaded some men to say” that Stephen had spoken …

And set up false witnesses
Having hired them, they brought them and set them before the sanhedrim, to bear witness a…

When they could not answer Stephen's arguments as a disputant, they prosecuted him as a criminal and brought false witnesses against him.

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