Acts 7:57

Mace New Testament

then they broke out into a loud cry, and stopping their ears, fell upon him all at once.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
This was the final straw. They covered their ears as to not hear the truth and bull rushed Steve.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But they cried out with a loud voice, and covered their ears and rushed at him with one impulse.

Legacy Standard Bible
But crying out with a loud voice, they covered their ears and rushed at him with one accord.

Bible in Basic English
But with loud cries, and stopping their ears, they made an attack on him all together,

Darby Translation
And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

New King James Version
Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord;

Christian Standard Bible®
Then they screamed at the top of their voices, covered their ears, and together rushed against him.

World English Bible
But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then they cried with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord,

Weymouth's New Testament
Upon this, with a loud outcry they stopped their ears, rushed upon Stephen in a body,

King James Version (1611)
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their eares, and ran vpon him with one accord,

Literal Translation
And crying out with a loud voice, they held their ears and rushed on him with one passion.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But they cried out with a loude voyce, & stopped their eares, and rane violently vpon him all at once,

THE MESSAGE
Yelling and hissing, the mob drowned him out. Now in full stampede, they dragged him out of town and pelted him with rocks. The ringleaders took off their coats and asked a young man named Saul to watch them.

Amplified Bible
But they shouted with loud voices, and covered their ears and together rushed at him [considering him guilty of blasphemy].

American Standard Version
But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

Revised Standard Version
But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together upon him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then they gave a shute with a loude voyce and stopped their eares and ranne apon him all at once

Update Bible Version
But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed on him with one accord;

Webster's Bible Translation
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

Young's Literal Translation
And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him,

New Century Version
Then they shouted loudly and covered their ears and all ran at Stephen.

New English Translation
But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.

Berean Standard Bible
At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.

Contemporary English Version
The council members shouted and covered their ears. At once they all attacked Stephen

Complete Jewish Bible
At this, they began yelling at the top of their voices, so that they wouldn't have to hear him; and with one accord, they rushed at him,

English Standard Version
But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then they gaue a shoute with a loude voyce, and stopped their eares, and ranne vpon him violently all at once,

George Lamsa Translation
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears and with one accord, shouted threats against Stephen.

Hebrew Names Version
But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.

International Standard Version
But they raised a loud shout, held their ears shut, and together they all rushed at him.

Etheridge Translation
And they cried with a high voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him, all of them,

Murdock Translation
And they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and all rushed upon him.

New Living Translation
Then they put their hands over their ears and began shouting. They rushed at him

New Life Bible
They cried out with loud voices. They put their hands over their ears and they all pushed on him.

English Revised Version
But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

New Revised Standard
But they covered their ears, and with a loud shout all rushed together against him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, crying out with a loud voice, they held their ears, and rushed with one accord upon him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(7-56) And they, crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears and with one accord ran violently upon him.

King James Version
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

Lexham English Bible
But crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed at him with one purpose.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then they gaue a shoute with a loude voyce, and stopped their eares, and ran vpon hym all at once,

Easy-to-Read Version
Everyone there started shouting loudly, covering their ears with their hands. Together they all ran at Stephen.

New American Standard Bible
But they shouted with loud voices, and covered their ears and rushed at him with one mind.

Good News Translation
With a loud cry the Council members covered their ears with their hands. Then they all rushed at him at once,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei crieden with a greet vois, and stoppiden her eris, and maden with o wille an assauyt in to hym.

Contextual Overview

⁵⁴ When they heard these things, they were transported with rage, and gnashed their teeth against him. ⁵⁵ but he, full of the holy spirit, fix'd his eyes towards heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ⁵⁶ and he said, there I see the heavens open, and the son of man standing on the right hand of God. ⁵⁷ then they broke out into a loud cry, and stopping their ears, fell upon him all at once. ⁵⁸ then they dragg'd him out of the city, and stoned him: the false witnesses having laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. ⁵⁹ Thus they stoned Stephen, while he was calling upon God, and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." ⁶⁰ and on his knees he cried with a loud voice, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." and having said this, he expired.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they cried: Acts 7:54, Acts 21:27-31, Acts 23:27

stopped: Psalms 58:4, Proverbs 21:13, Zechariah 7:11

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:18 - all Israel 1 Kings 21:13 - they carried him 2 Chronicles 10:18 - stoned him Matthew 13:15 - ears Matthew 27:23 - But Luke 4:29 - and thrust Luke 11:49 - and some Luke 21:12 - before Luke 23:5 - they John 8:59 - took Acts 21:30 - and they 2 Timothy 4:4 - turn

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then they cried out with a loud voice,.... These were not the sanhedrim, but the common people; the Ethiopic version reads, "the Jews cried out"; which, they did, in a very clamorous way, either through rage and madness, or in a show of zeal against blasphemy; and cried out, either to God to avenge the blasphemy, or rather to the sanhedrim to pass a sentence on him, or, it may be, to excite one another to rise up at once, and kill him, as they did:

and stopped their ears; with their fingers, pretending they could not bear the blasphemy that was uttered. This was their usual method; hence they say, o

"if a man hears anything that is indecent, (or not fit to be heard,) let him put his fingers in his ears hence the whole ear is hard, and the tip of it soft, that when he hears anything that is not becoming, he may bend the tip of the ear within it.''

By either of these ways these men might stop their ears; either by putting in their fingers, or by turning the tip of the ear inward.

And ran upon him with one accord; without any leave of the sanhedrim, or waiting for their determination, in the manner the zealots did; :- :-.

o T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 5. 1. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then they cried out - That is, probably, “the people,” not the members of the council It is evident he was put to death in a popular tumult. They had charged him with blasphemy; and they regarded what he had now said as full proof of it.

And stopped their ears - That they might hear no more blasphemy.

With one accord - In a tumult; unitedly.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 57. They - stopped their ears — As a proof that he had uttered blasphemy, because he said, He saw Jesus standing at the right hand of God. This was a fearful proof against them; for if Jesus was at the right hand of God, then they had murdered an innocent person; and they must infer that God's justice must speedily avenge his death. They were determined not to suffer a man to live any longer who could say he saw the heavens opened and Jesus Christ standing at the right hand of God.