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==Cases of lying witness==
Nabot was sentenced to death for cursing God and the king because two worthless men brought false witness against him. This was planned by Jezebel who ask the elders and the leaders of Nabot" s city in letters in Ahab’s name and sealed with his seal. In ths way king [[Ahab]] was able to obtain the Nabot" s vineyard which he had refused to sell because it was an inheritance of his fathers.
Some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia came upon Stephen and seized him and brought him before the council and set up false witnesses against him. These false witnesses said: "This man never ceases to speak words agains this holy place ([[Temple of Jerusalem]]) and the law, for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place (Stephen said that the temple of Jesus′ body had been destroyed by others but raise it up by Him in three days, according with what Jesus had said <ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202.18-22&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>)and the customs that Moses delivered to us."(Stephen said what Jesus had said namely He had come to fulfil the Law of [[Moses]] and the Prophets<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205.17&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw Stephen′ s face was like the face of an [[angel]].<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts6.8-15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>
