Acts 7:23
But when a forty year time span was fulfilled by him, it came into his heart to go help his brothers, the sons of Israel.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
22And Moses was reared in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
Cross References
Exodus 4:18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
Exodus 35:29The sons of Israel brought a freewill-offering to LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which LORD had commanded to be made by Moses.
2 Chronicles 30:12Also the hand of God came upon Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the rulers by the word of LORD.
Ezra 1:5Then the heads of fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred, rose up to go up to build the house of LORD which is in Jerusalem.
Proverbs 21:1The king's heart is in the hand of LORD as the watercourses. He turns it wherever he will.
2 Corinthians 8:16But thanks to God who gives the same eagerness for you in the heart of Titus.
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:18-30
Stephen's Address. 17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. 19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. 20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and… Read the whole commentary →