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.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- λαλῶν ῥήματα — SBLGNT
- λαλῶν ῥήματα — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ῥήματα βλάσφημα λαλῶν — Robinson-Pierpont
- ἁγίου — SBLGNT
- ἁγίου — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
- + τούτου — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
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.