Acts 7:1

Simplified Cowboy Version

Then the head preacher asked Steve, "What have you got to say about this?"

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?

Easy-to-Read Version
The high priest said to Stephen, "Is all this true?"

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?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Contextual Overview

¹ Then the head preacher asked Steve, "What have you got to say about this?" ²This is what he said, "Listen to me, all you. God, in all his glory, showed himself to our greatest of granddaddies, Abe. He did this while Abe still lived in Mesopotamia, before he moved to Haran. ³God said to him, 'Leave your ranch behind and strike a long trot toward the place I've shown ya.' ⁴So Abe did just that and stayed in Haran until his daddy had died. Then God led him to the land where we now live. ⁵"But God didn't give him the land. Not even a small water lot to keep his horses. But God did say he would give all the land to Abe's descendants. This was ironic because Abe and his wife couldn't have kids. ⁶God also told Abe his descendants would be in a foreign country as slaves for four hundred years. ⁷God said, 'But I'll pay back that country for all the abuse they'll give your family. When all is said and done, they will leave that country and come back here to worship me.' ⁸"God also taught Abe the pickle-clippin' promise. When Abe's son, Isaac, was born, he clipped his little boy's pickle on the eighth day just like God told him to. The ceremony continued with Isaac's boy, Jake, and on down the line to his boys. And it is Jake's boys who would become the twelve patriarchs of Israel. ⁹"Now these patriarchs were jealous of one of their brothers. They ended up selling their brother Joseph to some slavers from Egypt. But God was takin' care of Joseph ¹⁰and saved his hide from a bunch of troubles down there. God helped Joseph become the second most powerful man in Egypt behind Pharaoh.

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

Luke 17:26
When the Top Hand returns, it will be like in the days of Noah.

Acts 2:39
This promise is for all of you and your children. It's for anyone who is called to ride for the Lord."

Hebrews 11:7
It was by a heapin' of faith that Noah built him a big boat for his family to ride out the storm that wiped everyone else out. It was as simple as listening to God and doing what he said—even though no one had even heard of such a thing happening before. Noah's faith was the dividing line between who was saved and who was lost.

1 Peter 3:20
I'm talking about those who scoffed at Noah while he built his boat. Only eight folks survived the flood and the rest drowned like rats.

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.