12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
12 So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin.
12 And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,
12 That stirred up the people, the religious leaders, and religion scholars. They grabbed Stephen and took him before the High Council
12 And they stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; and they came upon him, seized him, and brought him to the council.
12 This roused the people, the elders, and the teachers of religious law. So they arrested Stephen and brought him before the high council.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 6:12
Commentary on Acts 6:8-15
(Read 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 shine, yet will not secure men from being treated badly. What shall we say of man, a rational being, yet attempting to uphold a religious system by false witness and murder! And this has been done in numberless instances. But the blame rests not so much upon the understanding, as upon the heart of a fallen creature, which is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Yet the servant of the Lord, possessing a clear conscience, cheerful hope, and Divine consolations, may smile in the midst of danger and death.