Acts 7:1-60

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 7:37-53

7:37-53 "It was this man who said to the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet from among your brothers, like me.' It was this Moses who was in the gathering of the people in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in Mount Sinai, and with your fathers. It was he who received the living oracles to give to you. But your fathers refused to be obedient to him. They rejected him. In their hearts they turned back to Egypt. They said to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go before us, as... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 7:54-60

7:54-60 As they listened to this their very hearts were torn with vexation and they gnashed their teeth at him. But he was full of the Holy Spirit and he gazed steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right hand. So he said, "Look now, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand." They shouted with a great shout and held their ears and launched themselves at him in a body. They flung him outside the city and began to stone him.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 7:1

Then said the high priest ,.... The Ethiopic version adds, "to him"; that is, to Stephen; for to him he addressed himself: or he "asked him", as the Syriac version renders it; he put the following question to him: are these things so? is it true what they say, that thou hast spoken blasphemous words against the temple, and the law, and hast said that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy the one, and change the other? what hast thou to say for thyself, and in thine own defence? this high priest... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 7:2

And he said ,.... Stephen replied, in answer to the high priest's question, and addressed himself to the whole sanhedrim, saying: men, brethren, and fathers, hearken ; to the following oration and defence; he calls them men, brethren, by an usual Hebraism, that is, "brethren"; and that, because they were of the same nation; for it was common with the Jews to call those of their own country and religion, brethren; and he calls them "fathers", because of their age and dignity, being the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 7:3

And said unto him ,.... Not the words in Genesis 12:1 for they were said in Haran, these in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt there, and besides, these are different from them; no mention is here made of getting out from his father's house, as there; because his father's house sent along with him, or rather he with them from Mesopotamia to Haran: get thee out of thy country ; from Ur of the Chaldees, where he was born: and from thy kindred ; his relations that lived in the same place,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 7:4

Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans ,.... The same with Mesopotamia; so Pliny says F2 De Urbibus, l. 6. c. 26. , that "because of Babylon the head of the Chaldean nation---the other part of Mesopotamia and Assyria is called Babylonia.' And he places Babylon in Mesopotamia; it was out of Ur, in the land of the Chaldeans particularly, that Abraham came, upon his first call: and dwelt in Charan : according to the Jewish writers F3 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 1. p. 2. Ganz... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 7:5

And he gave him none inheritance in it ,.... To be personally enjoyed by him; and which was a great trial to Abraham's faith, to be brought out of his country, and into another land, and which was promised to him and his; and yet, as not the whole, so not a single part of it was given him to possess: no, not so much as to set his foot on : so that when Sarah his wife died, he was obliged to buy a piece of ground for a burying place to bury her in: and which could not be said to be given... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 7:6

And God spake on this wise ,.... The Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, "and God spake to him", and so does one of Beza's copies; and the Ethiopic version reads it both ways, God "said thus to Abraham", as in Genesis 15:13 . That his seed should sojourn in a strange land ; or "be a stranger in a land not theirs"; first in the land of Canaan, and then in Egypt, which were possessed by other persons, the natives of them: and that they should bring them into bondage ; that is,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 7:7

And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage ,.... At the end of the four hundred years, and which was the Egyptian nation: I will judge, said God ; that is, condemn and punish them, as he did, by inflicting the ten plagues upon them: and after that they shall come forth ; out of the land of Egypt, and their hard bondage there; and which was brought about by the judgments executed upon the Egyptians: and serve me in this place ; in the land of Canaan; though these words are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 7:8

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision ,.... Or the covenant, of which circumcision was a sign or token, Genesis 17:11 . Stephen speaks here in the language of the Jews, who are wont to speak of circumcision after this manner; hence in the Jewish liturgy, there is a collect, לברית מילה , "for the covenant of circumcision" F8 Seder Tephillot, fol. 197. 1. Ed. Basil. Vid. Kimchi in Mal. iii. 1. ; and so it is said F9 Shemot Rabba, sect. 1. fol. 90. 1. , "when Joseph... read more

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