10And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
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For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. …
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)Stephen, no doubt was diligent and faithful in the discharge of his office as distributor of the church’s charity, and laid out himself to put that affair in a good method, which he did to universal satisfaction; and though it appears here that he was a man of uncommon gifts, and fitted for a higher station, yet, being called to that office, he did not think it below him to do the duty of it. And,…
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