Acts 6:14

For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs ¹  that Moses handed down to us.”

For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us."

for we have heard him say that this Nazarene, Jesus, will destroy this place and alter the customs which Moses handed down to us."

We have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy the Temple and change the customs Moses handed down to us."

We even heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth would tear this place down and throw out all the customs Moses gave us."

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.

for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed on to us."

"for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us."

For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs ¹  that Moses handed down to us.”

¹ tn Or “practices.”

sn Will destroy this place and change the customs. Stephen appears to view the temple as a less central place in light of Christ’s work, an important challenge to Jewish religion, since it was at this time a temple-centered state and religion. Unlike Acts 3-4, the issue here is more than Jesus and his resurrection. Now the impact of his resurrection and the temple’s centrality has also become an issue. The “falseness” of the charge may not be that the witnesses were lying, but that they falsely read the truth of Stephen’s remarks.