Acts 7:1

Stephen’s Speech to the Sanhedrin

1 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”

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Acts 7:1 in Other Translations

KJV

1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

ESV

1 And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

NLT

1 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these accusations true?”

MSG

1 Then the Chief Priest said, "What do you have to say for yourself?"

CSB

1 "Is this true?" the high priest asked.

Acts 7:1 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 7:1

Then said the high priest
The Ethiopic version adds, "to him"; that is, to Stephen; for to him he addressed himself: or he "asked him", as the Syriac version renders it; he put the following question to him:

are these things so?
is it true what they say, that thou hast spoken blasphemous words against the temple, and the law, and hast said that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy the one, and change the other? what hast thou to say for thyself, and in thine own defence? this high priest was either Annas, or rather Caiaphas; (See Gill on Acts 4:6).

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Acts 7:1 In-Context

1 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”

2 To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.

3 ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’

4 “So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.

5 He gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child.

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Stephen’s Speech to the Sanhedrin

Acts 7:1 in Other Translations

Acts 7:1 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 7:1 In-Context