Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 6:12

12 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,

Being overcome by reason and arguments, they betake themselves to all the evil arts imaginable; they suborn witnesses against St. Stephen, (as was done against Naboth) and (that we read of) never before; they make the people, and the number, (which is usually the worst) on their side; then they complain of him to the Priests, &c. and lest any, or all these, should fail, they lay violent hands on him themselves. Sin goes on as a Current, and never stops, unless an Almighty word be spoken unto it to go no further.