25For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
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And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-29)Stephen here goes on to relate, I. The wonderful increase of the people of Israel in Egypt; it was by a wonder of providence that in a little time they advanced from a family into a nation. 1. It was when the time of the promise drew nigh —the time when they were to be formed into a people. During the first two hundred and fifteen years after the promise made to Abraham, the children of the covena…
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