King James Version
What Does Acts 7:21 Mean?
“And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.”
Context
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The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
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In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: exceeding fair: or, fair to God
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And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
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And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
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And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
Commentary
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary**13-17. perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men--**that is, uninstructed in the learning of the Jewish schools, and of the common sort; men in private life, untrained to teaching.
**took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus--**recognized them as having been in His company; remembering possibly, that they had seen them with Him [Meyer, Bloomfield, Alford]; but, more probably, perceiving in their whole bearing what identified them with Jesus: that is, "We thought we had got rid of Him; but lo! He reappears in these men, and all that troubled us in the Nazarene Himself has yet to be put down in these His disciples." What a testimony to these primitive witnesses! Would that the same could be said of their successors!
Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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