Unto us for us, A.V. We have heard him say, etc. These false witnesses, like those who distorted our Lord's words (Matthew 26:61; John 2:19), doubtless based their accusation upon some semblance of truth.
If Stephen had said anything like what Jesus said to the woman of Samaria (John 4:21) or to his disciples (Mark 13:2), or what the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews wrote (8. 13), or what St. Paul wrote to the Colossians (Colossians 2:16, Colossians 2:17), his words might easily be misrepresented by false witnesses, whose purpose it was to swear away his life.
This Jesus of Nazareth. The phrase is most contemptuous. This ( οὗτος), so often rendered in the A.V. "this fellow" (Matthew 26:61, Matthew 26:71; John 9:29, etc.), is of itself an opprobrious expression (comp.
Acts 7:40), and the ὁ ναζωραῖος, the Nazarene, is intended to be still more so.