Acts 6:14
For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
Acts 6:14 in other translations
| BSB | For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.” |
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| WEB | For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.” |
| ASV | for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered unto us. |
| YLT | for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;' |
| DARBY | for we have heard him saying, This Jesus the Nazaraean shall destroy this place, and change the customs which Moses taught us. |
| BBE | For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses. |
| Webster | For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us. |
What does Acts 6:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 6:11-14
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).
Barnes' Notes
The customs. The ceremonial rites and observations of sacrifices, festivals, etc. appointed by Moses.
(c) "we have heard him" Acts 25:8 (d) "shall destroy this place" Dan 9:26 (1) "customs" "rites"
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 6:8-15
When they could not answer Stephen's arguments as a disputant, they prosecuted him as a criminal, and brought false witnesses against him. And it is next to a miracle of providence, that no greater number of religious persons have been murdered in the world, by the way of perjury and pretence of law, when so many thousands hate them, who make no conscience of false oaths. Wisdom and holiness make a man's face to…
Acts 6:14 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 6:14
- Daniel 9:26
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
- Hebrews 12:26-28
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
- Acts 21:21
And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
- Acts 15:1
And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
- Galatians 4:3-5
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
- John 4:21
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
- Hebrews 9:9-11
Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
- Galatians 3:23
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
- Hebrews 8:6-13
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. …
- Luke 21:6
As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
- Acts 28:17
And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
- Hebrews 10:1-18
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. …
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
25:8
that.
Isa 66:1-6; Jer 7:4-14; 26:6-9,12,18; Da 9:26; Mic 3:12; Zec 11:1
Zec 14:2; Mt 24:1,2; Mr 14:58; Lu 13:34,35; 21:6,24; Joh 4:21
change.
Isa 65:15; 66:19-21; Ho 3:4; Ga 3:19,23; 4:3-5; Heb 7:11-19; 8:6-13
Heb 9:9-11; 10:1-18; 12:26-28
customs. or, rites.
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Context
- Acts 6:13
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
- Acts 6:14
For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
- Acts 6:15
And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Acts 6:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque le hemos oído decir, que este Jesús de Nazaret destruirá este lugar, y mudará las ordenanzas que nos dió Moisés. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | car nous l’avons entendu dire que ce Jésus le Nazaréen détruira ce lieu-ci, et changera les coutumes que Moïse nous a enseignées. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | denn wir haben ihn sagen hören: Dieser Jesus, der Nazaräer, wird diese Stätte zerstören und die Gebräuche verändern, die uns Moses überliefert hat. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | audivimus enim eum dicentem quoniam Jesus Nazarenus hic destruet locum istum, et mutabit traditiones quas tradidit nobis Moyses. |