Acts 7:25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.

◄ Acts 7:25 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.

English Standard Version
He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.

New American Standard Bible
"And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

King James Bible
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He assumed his brothers would understand that God would give them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

International Standard Version
He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.

American Standard Version
and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he thought that his brethren understood that God by his hand would save them; but they understood it not.

Darby Bible Translation
For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.

Young's Literal Translation
and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

7:17-29 Let us not be discouraged at the slowness of the fulfilling of God's promises. Suffering times often are growing times with the church. God is preparing for his people's deliverance, when their day is darkest, and their distress deepest. Moses was exceeding fair, fair toward God; it is the beauty of holiness which is in God's sight of great price. He was wonderfully preserved in his infancy; for God will take special care of those of whom he designs to make special use. And did he thus protect the child Moses? Much more will he secure the interests of his holy child Jesus, from the enemies who are gathered together against him. They persecuted Stephen for disputing in defence of Christ and his gospel: in opposition to these they set up Moses and his law. They may understand, if they do not wilfully shut their eyes against the light, that God will, by this Jesus, deliver them out of a worse slavery than that of Egypt. Although men prolong their own miseries, yet the Lord will take care of his servants, and effect his own designs of mercy.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

25. For he supposed his brethren would have understood, &c.—and perhaps imagined this a suitable occasion for rousing and rallying them under him as their leader; thus anticipating his work, and so running unsent.

but they understood not—Reckoning on a spirit in them congenial with his own, he had the mortification to find it far otherwise. This furnishes to Stephen another example of Israel's slowness to apprehend and fall in with the divine purposes of love.