27But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. …
And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar. …
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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