Acts 7:25
23 When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
24 And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.
He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.
26 The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’
27 But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.
- KJV
- For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
- WEB
- He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.
- ASV
- and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.
- DARBY
- For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.
- BLB
- And he was supposing his brothers to understand that God is giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.
- ÅB
- Han tenkte da at hans brødre skulle forstå at Gud gav dem frelse ved hans hånd; men de forsto det ikke.
- OTB
- Han antok at hans brødre ville forstå at Gud ga dem frelse gjennom ham, men de gjorde det ikke.
- B1930
- Han tenkte da at hans brødre skulde forstå at Gud gav dem frelse ved hans hånd; men de forstod det ikke.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 9:45
But they did not understand this statement. It was veiled from them so that they could not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.
Read in context2 Corinthians 6:1
As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
Read in contextLuke 18:34
But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.
Read in contextActs 14:27
When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
Read in context2 Kings 5:1
Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
Read in contextPsalms 106:7
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
Read in context1 Samuel 14:45
But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has accomplished this today.” So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.
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