Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Acts 6:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
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Quick Meaning
Reports the council seeing Stephen's face like an angel's.
Read It With
- Acts 6:8–6:15
Acts 6:15 reports the council seeing Stephen's face like an angel's; within Acts 6:8–6:15, the controlling movement is that Stephen performs signs and argues with diaspora synagogue members who cannot withstand his wisdom; opponents recruit false testimony, bring him before the council, and accuse him concerning temple and law.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Reports the council seeing Stephen's face like an angel's. This precise contribution belongs inside “Stephen's witness draws a hostile hearing” because Stephen performs signs and argues with diaspora synagogue members who cannot withstand his wisdom; opponents recruit false testimony, bring him before the council, and accuse him concerning temple and law.
What Remains True
Because Acts 6:15 reports the council seeing Stephen's face like an angel's, faithful witness must preserve the verse's speaker, narrated setting, people affected, and the full movement of Acts 6:8–6:15 before drawing an enduring claim.
How It Can Shape Life
- For Acts 6:15, first identify this verse role—reports the council seeing Stephen's face like an angel's; then explain the contextual meaning in Acts 6:8–6:15; preserve the proportionate truth about accountable witness; finally apply this boundary: The conflict does not authorize antisemitism, contempt for diaspora Jews, or the claim that eloquence proves every theological conclusion.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 6:8–6:15 — Stephen's witness draws a hostile hearingSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 6:8–6:15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 6:8-6:15
Open the Acts Greek text file ↗Lexical and grammatical evidence
STEP Bible Data
Tyndale House Cambridge
Tyndale House Cambridge, repository snapshot verified 2026
Supports: Morphology and lexical cross-check for words explicitly discussed in this unit.
Exact location: STEP Bible Data, TAGNT rows for Acts 6:8-6:15
Open source ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Acts
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, translation, language, geography, chronology, and historical notes actually printed for the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Acts PDF, printed pp. 2104-2205, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to 6:8–6:15
Open source ↗