Acts 7:25

For he supposed that his brothers understood that God was giving to them deliverance by his hand, but they did not understand.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

In Context

24And seeing someone being wronged, he retaliated, and avenged him who was being oppressed, and struck the Egyptian.

26And on the next day he appeared to them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them to peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong one another?’

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Cross References

Luke 9:45But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them so that they did not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this saying. 1 Who is the Greatest?

Acts 14:27Now arriving and gathering the church together, they related all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith for the Gentiles.

Acts 15:7And after much debate, Peter arose and said to them: “Men and brothers, you know that from early days God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.

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 →

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