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Acts 7:1

The high priest said to Stephen, "Is all this true?"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Court;   Government;   Pleading;   Readings, Select;   Thompson Chain Reference - Stephen;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Stephen;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gospel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Paul the Apostle;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Future State;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Mission(s);   Preaching in the Bible;   Rephan;   Typology;   Witness, Martyr;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mark, Gospel According to;   Priest;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Caiaphas ;   Caiaphas (2);   Priest;   Quotations;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Stephen;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Abram;   Promised Land;   Joseph;   Encampment at Sinai;   Proclamation of the Law;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Persecution;   Sanhedrin;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Are these things true?” the high priest asked.
King James Version (1611)
Then said the high Priest, Are these things so?
King James Version
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
English Standard Version
And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
New American Standard Bible
Now the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
New Century Version
The high priest said to Stephen, "Are these things true?"
Amplified Bible
Now the high priest asked [Stephen], "Are these charges true?"
Legacy Standard Bible
And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
Berean Standard Bible
Then the high priest asked Stephen, "Are these charges true?"
Contemporary English Version
The high priest asked Stephen, "Are they telling the truth about you?"
Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen hagadol asked, "Are these accusations true?"
Darby Translation
And the high priest said, Are these things then so?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then sayd the chiefe Priest, Are these things so?
George Lamsa Translation
THEN the high priest asked Stephen, Are these things so?
Good News Translation
The High Priest asked Stephen, "Is this true?"
Lexham English Bible
And the high priest said, "Is it so concerning these things?"
Literal Translation
And the high priest said, Tell me then if you thus hold these things?
American Standard Version
And the high priest said, Are these things so?
Bible in Basic English
Then the high priest said, Are these things true?
Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen Gadol said, "Are these things so?"
International Standard Version
Then the high priest asked, "Is this true?"
Etheridge Translation
And the chief of the priests demanded if these (things) were so ?
Murdock Translation
And the high priest asked him: Are these things so?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then said ye chiefe priest: Are these thynges so?
English Revised Version
And the high priest said, Are these things so?
World English Bible
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then said the high priest, Are these things so? And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken.
Weymouth's New Testament
Then the High Priest asked him, "Are these statements true?"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the prynce of prestis seide to Steuene, Whethir these thingis han hem so?
Update Bible Version
And the high priest said, Are these things so?
Webster's Bible Translation
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
New English Translation
Then the high priest said, "Are these things true?"
New King James Version
Then the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
New Living Translation
Then the high priest asked Stephen, "Are these accusations true?"
New Life Bible
The head religious leader asked Stephen, "Are these things true?"
New Revised Standard
Then the high priest asked him, "Are these things so?"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the High-priest said - Are these things, so?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the high priest said: Are these things so?
Revised Standard Version
And the high priest said, "Is this so?"
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then sayde ye chefe prest: is it even so?
Young's Literal Translation
And the chief priest said, `Are then these things so?'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde the hye prest: Is it eue so?
Mace New Testament (1729)
Then said the high priest, are these things so?
THE MESSAGE
Then the Chief Priest said, "What do you have to say for yourself?"
Simplified Cowboy Version
Then the head preacher asked Steve, "What have you got to say about this?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Contextual Overview

1 The high priest said to Stephen, "Is all this true?" 2 Stephen answered, "My Jewish fathers and brothers, listen to me. Our great and glorious God appeared to Abraham, our ancestor, when he was in Mesopotamia. This was before he lived in Haran. 3 God said to him, ‘Leave your country and your people, and go to the country I will show you.' 4 "So Abraham left the country of Chaldea. He went to live in Haran. After his father died, God sent him to this place, where you live now. 5 But God did not give Abraham any of this land, not even a foot of it. But God promised that in the future he would give Abraham this land for himself and for his children. This was before Abraham had any children. 6 "This is what God said to him: ‘Your descendants will live in another country. They will be strangers. The people there will make them slaves and mistreat them for 400 years. 7 But I will punish the nation that made them slaves.' And God also said, ‘After those things happen, your people will come out of that country. Then they will worship me here in this place.' 8 "God made an agreement with Abraham; the sign for this agreement was circumcision. And so when Abraham had a son, he circumcised him when he was eight days old. His son's name was Isaac. Isaac also circumcised his son Jacob. And Jacob did the same for his sons, who became the twelve great ancestors of our people. 9 "These ancestors of ours became jealous of their brother Joseph and sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him 10 and saved him from all his troubles. Pharaoh was the king of Egypt then. He liked Joseph and respected him because of the wisdom God gave him. Pharaoh gave Joseph the job of being a governor of Egypt. He even let him rule over all the people in Pharaoh's house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Are: Acts 6:13, Acts 6:14, Matthew 26:61, Matthew 26:62, Mark 14:58-60, John 18:19-21, John 18:33-35

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:20 - General Acts 6:5 - Stephen 1 Timothy 3:13 - great

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
This is the history of Noah's family. He was a good man all his life, and he always followed God.
Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are a good man, even among the evil people of this time. So gather your family, and all of you go into the boat.
Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now, I will send much rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe everything off the face of the earth. I will destroy everything I made."
Genesis 7:5
Noah did everything the Lord told him to do.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old at the time the rains came.
Genesis 7:7
He and his family went into the boat to be saved from the flood. His wife and his sons and their wives were on the boat with him.
Genesis 7:8
All the clean animals, all the other animals on the earth, the birds, and everything that crawls on the earth
Genesis 7:9
went into the boat with Noah. These animals went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God commanded.
Genesis 7:10
Seven days later the flood started. The rain began to fall on the earth.
Genesis 7:11
On the 17th day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, the springs under the earth broke through the ground, and water flowed out everywhere. The sky also opened like windows and rain poured down. The rain fell on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. That same day Noah went into the boat with his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said the high priest,.... The Ethiopic version adds, "to him"; that is, to Stephen; for to him he addressed himself: or he "asked him", as the Syriac version renders it; he put the following question to him:

are these things so? is it true what they say, that thou hast spoken blasphemous words against the temple, and the law, and hast said that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy the one, and change the other? what hast thou to say for thyself, and in thine own defence? this high priest was either Annas, or rather Caiaphas;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then said the high priest - See the notes on Matthew 2:4. In this case the high priest seems to have presided in the council.

Are these things so? - To wit, the charge alleged against him of blasphemy against Moses and the temple, Acts 6:13-14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VII.

Stephen, being permitted to answer for himself relative to the

charge of blasphemy brought against him by his accusers, gives

a circumstantial relation of the call of Abraham, when he dwelt

in Mesopotamia, in Charran, c., 1-8.

The history of Jacob and Joseph, 9-17.

The persecution of their fathers in Egypt, 18, 19.

The history of Moses and his acts till the exodus from Egypt,

20-37.

The rebellion and idolatry of the Israelites in the wilderness,

38-43.

The erection of the tabernacle of witness, which continued till

the time of David, 44-46.

Of the temple built by Solomon for that God who cannot be

confined to temples built by hands, 47-50.

Being probably interrupted in the prosecution of his discourse,

he urges home the charge of rebellion against God, persecution

of his prophets, the murder of Christ, and neglect of their own

law against them, 51-53.

They are filled with indignation, and proceed to violence, 54.

He sees the glory of God, and Christ at the right hand of the

Father and declares the glorious vision, 55, 56.

They rush upon him, drag him out of the city, and stone him,

57, 58.

He involves the Lord Jesus, prays for his murderers, and

expires, 59, 60.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII.

Verse Acts 7:1. Are these things so? — Hast thou predicted the destruction of the temple? And hast thou said that Jesus of Nazareth shall change our customs, abolish our religious rites and temple service? Hast thou spoken these blasphemous things against Moses, and against God? Here was some colour of justice; for Stephen was permitted to defend himself. And, in order to do this he thought it best to enter into a detail of their history from the commencement of their nation; and thus show how kindly God had dealt with them, and how ungraciously they and their fathers had requited Him. And all this naturally led him to the conclusion, that God could no longer bear with a people the cup of whose iniquity had been long overflowing; and therefore they might expect to find wrath, without mixture of mercy.

But how could St. Luke get all this circumstantial account? 1. He might have been present, and heard the whole; or, more probably, he had the account from St. Paul, whose companion he was, and who was certainly present when St. Stephen was judged and stoned, for he was consenting to his death, and kept the clothes of them who stoned him. See Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1; Acts 22:20.


 
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