Psalm 35:11

'Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know' matches the false testimony and incoherent accusations leveled at Jesus. The recurrence of the false-witness motif across the lament psalms (27, 35) strengthens the allusion and frames the trial as the persecution of the innocent sufferer.

'Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things I do not know.' The 'false witnesses' suborned against Stephen (6:13) reprise the lament-psalm motif of the righteous sufferer assailed by lying accusers. Thematic coherence strong within Luke's righteous-martyr portrait; verbal contact moderate.

'Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things I know not.' The Jews bring 'many and grievous charges which they could not prove' (v.7) — precisely the false, unsubstantiated accusation the persecuted-righteous psalmist faces. The strongest of the chapter's faint OT resonances; the unprovable-charge motif recurs through Luke's passion-and-trial pattern, giving it some thematic coherence. Still an echo rather than a citation.

'malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things I know not' supplies the false-testimony motif of vv59-60.

'Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things I know not.' The hired orator's manufactured indictment ('a plague,' 'instigator of insurrections,' temple-profaner) fits the lament topos of the innocent assailed by lying accusers. Recurs across Luke-Acts; no direct quotation, hence echo.

Paul is haled before the tribunal by accusers who 'rose up' with malicious charges — the lament motif of malicious witnesses rising against the righteous sufferer ('Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things I do not know').

'Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things I know not' — the righteous sufferer falsely accused of crimes (here perverting the nation, forbidding tribute). A stock element of the lament-psalm pattern Luke weaves; faint individually but coherent with the cluster.