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Acts 7:31 KJV
Acts · chapter 7 · verse 31
When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,Acts 7:31 · King James Version
Acts 7:31 in context
29Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
30And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
31When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,
32Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
33Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wonderedthaumazōto wonder, wonder at, marvel, to be wondered at, to be had in admirationG2296 →
- beholdkatanoeōto perceive, remark, observe, understand, to consider attentively, fix one's eyes or mind…G2657 →
- MosesmōysēsMoses = "drawing out", the legislator of the Jewish people and in a certain sense the…G3475 →
- sighthoramathat which is seen, spectacle, a sight divinely granted in an ecstasy or in a sleep, a…G3705 →
- voicephōnēa sound, a tone, of inanimate things, as musical instruments, a voice, of the sound of…G5456 →
- nearproserchomaito come to, approach, draw near to, to assent toG4334 →
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Stephen here proceeds in his story of Moses; and let any one judge whether these are the words of one that was a blasphemer of Moses or no; nothing could be spoken more honourably of him. Here is, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 30-41