# Connecting Statement:

The background information that began in [Acts 6:8](./08.md) continues through verse 10.

# General Information:

Here the word "We" refers only to the men they persuaded to lie. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-exclusive]])

# General Information:

The word "they" refers back to the people from the synagogue of the freemen in [Acts 6:9](./08.md).

# not able to stand against

This phrase means they could not prove false what he said. AT: "could not argue against" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# Spirit

this refers to the Holy Spirit

# some men to say

They were given money to give false testimony. AT: "some men to lie and say" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])

# blasphemous words against

"bad things about"

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/wise]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/holyspirit]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/stephen]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/blasphemy]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/moses]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]]