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Kisah Para Rasul 6:11

Lalu mereka menghasut beberapa orang untuk mengatakan: "Kami telah mendengar dia mengucapkan kata-kata hujat terhadap Musa dan Allah."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Accusation, False;   Blasphemy;   Court;   Falsehood;   False Teachers;   Government;   Greece;   Indictments;   Intolerance, Religious;   Jerusalem;   Perjury;   Persecution;   Stephen;   Witness;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Witnesses, False;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Blasphemy;   Church of Israel;   Jews, the;   Law of Moses, the;   Slander;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Blasphemy;   Deacon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Blasphemy;   Moses;   Sanhedrin;   Stephen;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Deacon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Grecians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Church Government;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Nicolas;   Stephen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Blasphemy ;   Moses;   Persecution;   Pharisees (2);   Reproach (2);   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Stephen;   Suborn, to;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Blasphemy;   Stephen;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Blasphemy;   Deacon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Church Government;   Deacon;   Ministry;   Papyrus;   Suborn;   Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu mereka menghasut beberapa orang untuk mengatakan: "Kami telah mendengar dia mengucapkan kata-kata hujat terhadap Musa dan Allah."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu mereka itu pun memakat beberapa orang akan mengatakan, "Kami sudah mendengar dia mengatakan perkataan hujat ke atas Musa dan Allah."

Contextual Overview

8 And Steuen full of fayth & power, dyd great wonders & miracles among the people. 9 Then there arose certaine of the synagogue, which is called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and of Alexandria, and of Cilicia, & of Asia, disputyng with Steuen. 10 And they coulde not resiste the wisedome and the spirite by the whiche he spake. 11 Then they priuilie prepared men, whiche sayde, we haue heard him speake blasphemous wordes agaynst Moyses, and agaynst God. 12 And they moued the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came vppon hym, and caught him, and brought him to the counsell. 13 And brought foorth false witnesses, which sayde: This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes agaynste this holy place and the lawe. 14 For we hearde hym say, that this Iesus of Nazareth shal destroy this place, & shall chaunge the ordinaunces which Moyses gaue vs: 15 And all that sate in the counsell, loking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had ben the face of an angell.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Acts 23:12-15, Acts 24:1-13, Acts 25:3, Acts 25:7, 1 Kings 21:10, 1 Kings 21:13, Matthew 26:59, Matthew 26:60, Matthew 28:12-15, John 16:3, Romans 3:8

blasphemous: Acts 6:13, Acts 18:6, Acts 26:11, Leviticus 24:16, 1 Kings 21:10-13, John 10:33-36, 1 Timothy 1:13

against Moses: Acts 7:37-39, Acts 15:21, Acts 21:20-22, Acts 21:28, John 1:17, John 5:45-47, John 9:29, Hebrews 3:2-5

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:1 - an unrighteous witness Leviticus 19:16 - stand Leviticus 24:11 - blasphemed Psalms 27:12 - false Psalms 52:2 - Thy Proverbs 19:28 - An ungodly witness Isaiah 32:7 - lying Jeremiah 20:10 - Report Jeremiah 26:11 - for he Jeremiah 37:13 - Thou Ezekiel 22:9 - men that carry tales Zechariah 11:3 - for their Matthew 9:3 - This Mark 13:9 - take Mark 14:55 - sought Luke 5:21 - blasphemies John 9:28 - but Acts 7:58 - stoned Acts 24:9 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it came to passe, that when men began to be multiplied in the vpper face of the earth, there were daughters borne vnto the:
Genesis 6:2
And the sonnes of God also sawe the daughters of men that they were fayre, & they toke them wyues, such as theyliked, from among them all.
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said vnto Noah: come thou and al thy house into ye arke: for thee haue I seen ryghteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 10:9
The same began to be mightie in the earth, for he was a mightie hunter before the Lorde: Wherfore it is sayde, Euen as Nimrod the mightie hunter before the Lorde.
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodome [were] wicked, and exceedyng sinners agaynst the Lorde.
2 Chronicles 34:27
Because thyne heart did melt, and thou diddest meeke thy selfe before God when thou heardest his wordes against this place, and against the inhabiters thereof, and humbledst thy selfe before me, and tarest thy clothes, and weepedst before me: that haue I heard also, sayth the Lorde.
Psalms 11:5
God wyll trye the righteous: but his soule abhorreth the vngodly, and hym that delighteth in wickednes.
Psalms 55:9
Destroy their tongues O Lorde, and deuide [them]: for I haue seene oppression and strife in the citie.
Psalms 140:11
A man full of tongue can not prosper vpon the earth: euyll shall hunt the outragious person to ouerthrowe him.
Isaiah 60:18
Uiolence and robberie shall neuer be hearde of in thy lande, neither harme and destruction within thy borders: thy walles shalbe called health, and thy gates the prayse of God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then they suborned men,.... Hired false witnesses, which seems to have been commonly done by the Jews; so they did in the case of Christ:

which said, we have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God; that is, against the law of Moses, and so against God, who gave the law to Moses, as appears from Acts 6:13 the blasphemous words seem to be, with respect to the ceremonial law, and the abrogation of it, which Stephen might insist upon, and they charged with blasphemy; see Acts 6:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then they suborned men - To suborn in law means to procure a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury (Webster). It has substantially this sense here. It means that they induced them to declare what was false, or to bring a false accusation against him. This was done, not by declaring a palpable and open falsehood, but by “perverting” his doctrines, and by stating their own “inferences” as what he had actually maintained - the common way in which people oppose doctrines from which they differ. The Syriac reads this place, “Then they sent certain men, and instructed them that they should say, etc.” This was repeating an artifice which they had before practiced so successfully in relation to the Lord Jesus Christ. See Matthew 26:60-61.

We have heard ... - When they alleged that they had heard this is not said. Probably, however, they referred to some of his discourses with the people when he performed miracles and wonders among them, Acts 6:8.

Blasphemous words - See the notes on Matthew 9:3. Moses was regarded with profound reverence. His laws they held to be unchangeable. Any intimation, therefore, that there was a greater Lawgiver than he, or that his institutions were mere shadows and types, and were no longer binding, would be regarded as blasphemy, even though it should be spoken with the highest professed respect for Moses. That the Mosaic institutions were to be changed, and give place to another and a better dispensation, all the Christian teachers would affirm; but this was not said with a design to blaspheme or revile Moses. “In the view of the Jews,” to say that was to speak blasphemy; and hence, instead of reporting what he actually “did” say, they accused him of “saying” what “they” regarded as blasphemy. If reports are made of what people say, their very “words” should be reported; and we should not report our inferences or impressions as what they said.

And against God - God was justly regarded by the Jews as the giver of theft law and the author of their institutions. But the Jews, either willfully or involuntarily, not knowing that they were a shadow of good things to come, and were therefore to pass away, regarded all intimations of such a change as blasphemy against God. God had a right to change or abolish those ceremonial observances, and it was “not” blasphemy in Stephen to declare it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 6:11. Then they suborned men — υπεβαλον. They made underhand work; got associated to themselves profligate persons, who for money would swear any thing.

Blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. — This was the most deadly charge they could bring against him. We have already seen, Matthew 9:4, that blasphemy, when against GOD, signifies speaking impiously of his nature, attributes, or works; and, when against men, it signifies speaking injuriously of their character, blasting their reputation, c. These false witnesses came to prove that he had blasphemed Moses by representing him as an impostor, or the like and GOD, by either denying his being, his providence, the justice of his government, &c.


 
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