Acts 6:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 6

¹²And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

Acts 6:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Acts 14:2
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
Matthew 26:57
And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
Acts 5:18
And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
Acts 17:13
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Arbitration Armory Bigotry Church and State Cities Citizens

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-15)

Stephen, no doubt was diligent and faithful in the discharge of his office as distributor of the church’s charity, and laid out himself to put that affair in a good method, which he did to universal satisfaction; and though it appears here that he was a man of uncommon gifts, and fitted for a higher station, yet, being called to that office, he did not think it below him to do the duty of it. And,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

11-14. blasphemous words against Moses--doubtless referring to the impending disappearance of the whole Mosaic system. and against God--This must refer to the supreme dignity and authority which he claimed for Christ, as the head of that new economy which was so speedily to supersede the old (compare Ac 7:56, 59, 60).