Hechos 6:10

10 Ninguno de ellos podía hacerle frente a la sabiduría y al Espíritu con que hablaba Esteban.

Hechos 6:10 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 6:10

And they were not able to resist the wisdom
In Beza's most ancient copy, and in another manuscript it is added, "which was in him"; that divine wisdom, which the Spirit of wisdom gave him; they were not a match for him with respect to the knowledge of divine things; they could not answer the wise arguments he made use of, fetched out of the Scriptures of truth, in which he was well versed, and had a large knowledge of:

and the Spirit by which he spake;
that is, the Holy Spirit, as the above exemplars of Beza, and the Ethiopic version read; the meaning is, they could not resist the Holy Spirit, by which Stephen spake, so as to overcome him, or put Stephen to silence, or confute him; otherwise they did resist him, or oppose themselves to him, but in vain, and without success; for they always resisted the Holy Ghost in Christ and in his apostles, as their fathers before them resisted him in the prophets, as Stephen observes to them, ( Acts 7:51 ) hereby was fulfilled what our Lord promised to his disciples, ( Matthew 10:19 Matthew 10:20 ) ( Luke 21:15 ) .

Hechos 6:10 In-Context

8 Arresto de Esteban
Esteban, un hombre lleno de la gracia y del poder de Dios, hacía señales y milagros asombrosos entre la gente.

9 Cierto día, unos hombres de la sinagoga de los Esclavos Liberados —así la llamaban— comenzaron a debatir con él. Eran judíos de Cirene, Alejandría, Cilicia y de la provincia de Asia.

10 Ninguno de ellos podía hacerle frente a la sabiduría y al Espíritu con que hablaba Esteban.

11 Entonces persuadieron a unos hombres para que dijeran mentiras acerca de Esteban. Ellos declararon: «Nosotros lo oímos blasfemar contra Moisés y hasta contra Dios».

12 Esto provocó a la gente, a los ancianos y a los maestros de la ley religiosa. Así que arrestaron a Esteban y lo llevaron ante el Concilio Supremo.