“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,”
So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin - the escalation is orchestrated: first the synagogues, then conspiracy, then public incitement ('stirred up the people,' synkinēsan ton laon). Stephen is arrested and brought before the full Sanhedrin, the same council that condemned Jesus. His trial echoes Jesus's trial in structure: false witnesses, religious authority, charges of blasphemy.
Church Fathers on Acts 6:12
Then there arose certain of them of the synagogue. Acts 6:9 Again he uses the phrase of rising up (ἀ νάστασιν, Hom. xiii. p. 81), to denote their exasperation and wrath. Here we have a great multitude. And observe the difference in the form of accusation: for since Gamaliel had stopped them from finding fault on the former plea, they bring in another charge. And there rose up, it says, certain of them of the synagogue of those who are called (τὥν λεγομένων. Edd. τἥς…
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