Acts 7:1

Amplified Bible

Now the high priest asked [Stephen], "Are these charges true?"

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
The high priest said to Stephen, "Is all this true?"

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then sayde ye chefe prest: is it even so?

Hebrew Names Version
The Kohen Gadol said, "Are these things so?"

International Standard Version
Then the high priest asked, "Is this true?"

New American Standard Bible
Now the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

New Century Version
The high priest said to Stephen, "Are these things true?"

Update Bible Version
And the high priest said, Are these things so?

Webster's Bible Translation
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

English Standard Version
And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

World English Bible
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then said the high priest, Are these things so? And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken.

Weymouth's New Testament
Then the High Priest asked him, "Are these statements true?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the prynce of prestis seide to Steuene, Whethir these thingis han hem so?

English Revised Version
And the high priest said, Are these things so?

Berean Standard Bible
Then the high priest asked Stephen, "Are these charges true?"

Contemporary English Version
The high priest asked Stephen, "Are they telling the truth about you?"

American Standard Version
And the high priest said, Are these things so?

Bible in Basic English
Then the high priest said, Are these things true?

Complete Jewish Bible
The cohen hagadol asked, "Are these accusations true?"

Darby Translation
And the high priest said, Are these things then so?

Etheridge Translation
And the chief of the priests demanded if these (things) were so ?

Murdock Translation
And the high priest asked him: Are these things so?

King James Version (1611)
Then said the high Priest, Are these things so?

New Living Translation
Then the high priest asked Stephen, "Are these accusations true?"

New Life Bible
The head religious leader asked Stephen, "Are these things true?"

New Revised Standard
Then the high priest asked him, "Are these things so?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then sayd the chiefe Priest, Are these things so?

George Lamsa Translation
THEN the high priest asked Stephen, Are these things so?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the High-priest said - Are these things, so?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the high priest said: Are these things so?

Revised Standard Version
And the high priest said, "Is this so?"

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then said ye chiefe priest: Are these thynges so?

Good News Translation
The High Priest asked Stephen, "Is this true?"

Christian Standard Bible®
“Are these things true?” the high priest asked.

King James Version
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

Lexham English Bible
And the high priest said, "Is it so concerning these things?"

Literal Translation
And the high priest said, Tell me then if you thus hold these things?

Young's Literal Translation
And the chief priest said, `Are then these things so?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde the hye prest: Is it eue so?

Mace New Testament (1729)
Then said the high priest, are these things so?

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

New English Translation
Then the high priest said, "Are these things true?"

New King James Version
Then the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Simplified Cowboy Version
Then the head preacher asked Steve, "What have you got to say about this?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Legacy Standard Bible
And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"

Contextual Overview

¹Now the high priest asked [Stephen], "Are these charges true?"²And he answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory [the Shekinah, the radiance of God] appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, ³and He said to him, 'LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR RELATIVES, AND COME TO THE LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.' ⁴"Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, God sent him to this country in which you now live. ⁵"But He did not give him inheritable property, not even enough ground to take a step on, yet He promised that HE WOULD GIVE IT TO HIM AS A POSSESSION, AND TO HIS DESCENDANTS AFTER HIM. ⁶"And this is, in effect, what God spoke [to him]: That his DESCENDANTS WOULD BE ALIENS (strangers) IN A FOREIGN LAND, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE ENSLAVED AND MISTREATED FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. ⁷"'AND I WILL JUDGE ANY NATION TO WHOM THEY WILL BE IN BONDAGE,' said God, 'AND AFTER THAT THEY WILL COME OUT AND SERVE ME [in worship] IN THIS PLACE.' ⁸"And God gave Abraham a covenant [a formal agreement to be strictly observed] of [which] circumcision [was the sign]; and so [under these circumstances] Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac [became the father] of Jacob, and Jacob [became the father] of the twelve patriarchs. ⁹"The [ten elder] patriarchs, overwhelmed with jealousy, sold [their younger brother] Joseph into [slavery in] Egypt; but God was with him, ¹⁰and He rescued him from all his suffering, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made Joseph governor over Egypt and over his entire household.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Are: Acts 6:13, Acts 6:14, Matthew 26:61, Matthew 26:62, Mark 14:58-60, John 18:19-21, John 18:33-35

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:20 - General Acts 6:5 - Stephen 1 Timothy 3:13 - great

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God.

Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you with all your household, for you [alone] I have seen as righteous (doing what is right) before Me in this generation.

Genesis 7:4
"For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth."

Genesis 7:5
So Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood (deluge) of water came on the earth [covering all of the land].

Genesis 7:7
Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark to escape the flood waters.

Genesis 7:8
Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and fowls and everything that crawls on the ground,

Genesis 7:9
they came [motivated by God] into the ark with Noah two by two, the male and the female, just as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:10
And after the seven days [God released the rain and] the floodwaters came on the earth.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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;

:-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then said the high priest - See the notes on Matthew 2:4. In this case the high priest seems to have presided in the council.

Are these things so? - To wit, the charge alleged against him of blasphemy against Moses and the temple, Acts 6:13-14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VII.

Stephen, being permitted to answer for himself relative to the

charge of blasphemy brought against him by his accusers, gives

a circumstantial relation of the call of Abraham, when he dwelt

in Mesopotamia, in Charran, c., 1-8.

The history of Jacob and Joseph, 9-17.

The persecution of their fathers in Egypt, 18, 19.

The history of Moses and his acts till the exodus from Egypt,

20-37.

The rebellion and idolatry of the Israelites in the wilderness,

38-43.

The erection of the tabernacle of witness, which continued till

the time of David, 44-46.

Of the temple built by Solomon for that God who cannot be

confined to temples built by hands, 47-50.

Being probably interrupted in the prosecution of his discourse,

he urges home the charge of rebellion against God, persecution

of his prophets, the murder of Christ, and neglect of their own

law against them, 51-53.

They are filled with indignation, and proceed to violence, 54.

He sees the glory of God, and Christ at the right hand of the

Father and declares the glorious vision, 55, 56.

They rush upon him, drag him out of the city, and stone him,

57, 58.

He involves the Lord Jesus, prays for his murderers, and

expires, 59, 60.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII.

Verse Acts 7:1. Are these things so? — Hast thou predicted the destruction of the temple? And hast thou said that Jesus of Nazareth shall change our customs, abolish our religious rites and temple service? Hast thou spoken these blasphemous things against Moses, and against God? Here was some colour of justice; for Stephen was permitted to defend himself. And, in order to do this he thought it best to enter into a detail of their history from the commencement of their nation; and thus show how kindly God had dealt with them, and how ungraciously they and their fathers had requited Him. And all this naturally led him to the conclusion, that God could no longer bear with a people the cup of whose iniquity had been long overflowing; and therefore they might expect to find wrath, without mixture of mercy.

But how could St. Luke get all this circumstantial account? 1. He might have been present, and heard the whole; or, more probably, he had the account from St. Paul, whose companion he was, and who was certainly present when St. Stephen was judged and stoned, for he was consenting to his death, and kept the clothes of them who stoned him. See Acts 7:58; Acts 8:1; Acts 22:20.