Acts 6:11

11 Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!"

Acts 6:11 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 6:11

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 ) .

Acts 6:11 In-Context

9 But some of those from the Synagogue of the Freedmen ({as it was called}), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia, stood up [and] disputed with Stephen.

10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

11 Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!"

12 And they incited the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came up [and] seized him and brought [him] to the Sanhedrin.

13 And they put forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place and the law!