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A Distortion of Truth
Commentators explain that the charge against Stephen wasn't a complete fabrication, but a dangerous distortion. His opponents took his actual teachings—that Jesus fulfills the law of Moses and the Temple—and twisted them into the capital crime of blasphemy. This highlights a common tactic of opposition: misrepresenting truth to make it sound like an attack on cherished beliefs.
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Albert Barnes
On Acts 6:11
18th Century
Theologian
Then they suborned men. To suborn in law means to procure a person to take a false oath that constitutes perjury—Webster…
AT Robertson
On Acts 6:11
Then they suborned men (τοτε υπεβαλον ανδρας). Second aorist active indicative of υποβαλλω, old verb, but here only in the N.T., t…
Charles Ellicott
On Acts 6:11
19th Century
Bishop
Blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.—The words indicate with sufficient clarity the nature of Stephen’s teaching. The…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Acts 6:11
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 …
John Gill
On Acts 6:11
17th Century
Pastor
Then they suborned men
Hired false witnesses, which seems to have been commonly done by the Jews; so they did in the…
Matthew Henry
On Acts 6:8–15
17th Century
Minister
When they could not answer Stephen's arguments as a disputant, they prosecuted him as a criminal and brought false witnesses against him.
An…