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Acts 6:13

And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

KJV

ἔστησάν τε μάρτυρας ψευδεῖς λέγοντας, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος οὐ παύεται λαλῶν ῥήματα κατὰ τοῦ τόπου τοῦ ἁγίου καὶ τοῦ νόμου·

Greek NT

et statuerunt falsos testes, qui dicerent : Homo iste non cessat loqui verba adversus locum sanctum, et legem :

Vulgate

and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against this holy place, and the law:

ASV

And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
λαλέω
laleo
verb · 298×
μάρτυς
martus
noun · 35×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
παύω
pauo
verb · 15×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
τόπος
topos
noun · 95×
ψευδής
pseudes
adjective · 3×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ἵστημι
istemi
verb · 152×
o
article · 19778×
ῥῆμα
rema
noun · 67×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: λαλῶν ῥήματα | WH/Treg/NIV: λαλῶν ῥήματα | RP: ῥήματα βλάσφημα λαλῶν
  • λαλῶν ῥήματαSBLGNT
  • λαλῶν ῥήματαWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ῥήματα βλάσφημα λαλῶνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: ἁγίου | Treg/RP: ἁγίου | WH/NIV: + τούτου
  • ἁγίουSBLGNT
  • ἁγίουTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
  • + τούτουWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Kgs 25:9 — And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.
  • Acts 6:11 — Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
  • Acts 7:58 — And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
  • Acts 18:13 — Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
  • Acts 21:28 — Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted
  • Acts 25:8 — While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
  • Exod 20:16 — Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
  • Hab 1:5 — Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
  • Jas 3:6 — And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
  • John 16:2 — They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
  • Luke 13:35 — Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
  • Mark 14:57 — And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,
  • Matt 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
  • Matt 23:38 — Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
  • Matt 24:15 — When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
  • Neh 6:13 — Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
  • Prov 6:19 — A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
  • Ps 35:11 — False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
  • Ps 109:2 — For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
  • Zech 11:10 — And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.