Acts 6:14 - Exposition

Unto us for us, A.V. We have heard him say , etc. These false witnesses, like those who distorted our Lord's words ( Matthew 26:61 ; John 2:19 ), doubtless based their accusation upon some semblance of truth. If Stephen had said anything like what Jesus said to the woman of Samaria ( John 4:21 ) or to his disciples ( Mark 13:2 ), or what the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews wrote (8. 13), or what St. Paul wrote to the Colossians ( Colossians 2:16 , Colossians 2:17 ), his words might easily be misrepresented by false witnesses, whose purpose it was to swear away his life. This Jesus of Nazareth . The phrase is most contemptuous. This ( οὗτος ), so often rendered in the A.V. "this fellow" ( Matthew 26:61 , Matthew 26:71 ; John 9:29 , etc.), is of itself an opprobrious expression (comp. Acts 7:40 ), and the ὁ ναζωραῖος , the Nazarene, is intended to be still more so.