13And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
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Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
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 this holy place.
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.
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.
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
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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,…
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