Then they secretly instigated men who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
Stephen, no doubt was diligent and faithful in the discharge of his office as distributor of the church's charity, and laid out himself to put that affair in a good method, which he did to universal satisfaction; and though it appears here that he was a man of uncommon gifts, and fitted for a higher station, yet, being called to that office, he did not...
Commenting on Acts 6:8-15
Then they suborned men,.... Hired false witnesses, which seems to have been commonly done by the Jews; so they did in the case of Christ: which said, we have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God; that is, against the law of Moses, and so against God, who gave the law to Moses, as appears from Act 6:13 the blasphemous words seem...
Verse 11. Then they suborned men. To suborn in law, means to procure a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.-- Webster. It has substantially this sense here. It means that they induced them to declare that which was false, or to bring a false accusation against him.