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Acts 7:23 KJV
Acts · chapter 7 · verse 23
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.Acts 7:23 · King James Version
Acts 7:23 in context
21And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
22And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
23And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
25For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- brethrenadelphosa brother, whether born of the same two parents or only of the same father or mother…G80 →
- childrenyhiosa son, rarely used for the young of animals, generally used of the offspring of men, in a…G5207 →
- yearstesserakontaetēsof forty years, forty years oldG5063 →
- heartkardiathe heart, that organ in the animal body which is the centre of the circulation of the…G2588 →
- visitepiskeptomaito look upon or after, to inspect, examine with the eyes, in order to see how he isG1980 →
- fullplēroōto make full, to fill upG4137 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-29