Acts 7:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. ”

• Acts 7:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  All his kindred - His father and family, Genesis 45:17-28 ; Genesis 46:1-26 . Threescore and fifteen souls - Seventy-five persons. There has been much perplexity felt in the explanation of...

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• Acts 7:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Abraham and the Patriarchs. The High Priest invites Stephen to plead to the charge. Addressing his audience in the style used by Paul ( Acts 22:1 ), Stephen speaks of the theophany to Abraham, plac...

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• Acts 7:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  sent. Greek. apostello. App-174. called... to him. Greek. metakaleomai. Here, Acts 10:32 ; Acts 20:17 ; Acts 24:25 . meta in composition expresses the idea of change. threescore, &amp...

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• Acts 7:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  14. Whereas he saith that Jacob came into Egypt with seventy-five souls, it agreeth not with the words of Moses; for Moses maketh mention of seventy only. Jerome thinketh that Luke setteth not...

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• Acts 7:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him , and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. Threescore and fifteen souls - There are several difficulties here, which it is hoped the re...

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• Acts 7:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Threescore and fifteen souls.— See the notes on Genesis 20:18 .

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• Acts 7:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore...

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• Acts 7:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Defence and Martyrdom of Stephen 1-53. Speech of Stephen. There is every reason to believe that this speech was really delivered by St. Stephen, and not composed by St. Luke; for, (1) the speech d...

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• Acts 7:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (11-14) Now there came a dearth... — So far as we can trace the sequence of thought, there seems the suggested inference that as those who, in the history of Joseph, had persecuted him, came afterw...

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• Acts 7:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 15 ST. STEPHEN'S DEFENCE AND THE DOCTRINE OF INSPIRATION. Acts 6:12-14 ; Acts 7:1-2 ST. STEPHEN and St. Philip are the two prominent names among the primitive deacons. Stephen, howev...

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• Acts 7:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Stephen's Defense: the Deliverer from Bondage Acts 7:14-29 Moses, we are here told, was “mighty in words;” that is, in eloquence as well as in deeds. This confirms the statement of the Jewish h...

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• Acts 7:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The charge against Stephen was that he had spoken against the Temple and the Law. His reply consisted of a masterly review of the history of the nation from the calling of Abraham to the rejection of...

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• Acts 7:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, (3) And said unto him, Get thee out of thy c...

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• Acts 7:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then sent Joseph ,.... Gifts and presents to his father, and wagons, to fetch down him and his family into Egypt, Genesis 45:21 . and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threesco...

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• Acts 7:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The high priest only asks the question, "Are these things so?" Then God provides room for Stephen to speak without interruption for some time. This stands in striking contrast to the way in which the...

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• Acts 7:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Stephen's Address.       1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?   2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God...

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• Acts 7:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  All his kindred; his affinity, and not consanguinity only, which may be the reason why, though in Genesis 46:26 it is said, that all the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt were threescore a...

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• Acts 7:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  From Abraham to the Prophet Like Moses - Reply To The Charge of Blasphemy Against God and Moses (7:2-43). The only way Stephen had of replying to charges of blasphemy when he had no supporting wit...

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• Acts 7:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 7:1 . The high priest’s question, Are these things so? analogous to that put to Christ ( Matthew 26:62 ), was equivalent to a modern “Guilty or not guilty?” Acts 7:2 . C...

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• Acts 7:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

  kindred ( See Scofield) - ( Genesis 46:26 ). There is no real contradiction. The "house of Jacob" numbered seventy but the "kindred" would include the wives of Jacob's sons.

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• Acts 7:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Acts 6 ; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of...

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• Acts 7:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Acts 7:14-17 . Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, and were carrie...

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• Acts 7:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The scope and design of St. Stephen's defence before the council will be better understood, if it be properly analyzed. The rulers construed his defence to import, that the glory of their temple shou...

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• Acts 7:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then said the high priest, Are these things so? The high priest and his question This functionary was probably Theophilus, son-in-law of Caiaphas. The ex-officio president of the council called...

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• Acts 7:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 7:1 And the high priest said for then said the high priest, A.V. The high priest spoke as president of the Sanhedrim (see Acts 9:1-44 . Acts 9:1 and Matthew 26:62 )....

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• Acts 7:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The story of Jacob and Joseph:

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• Acts 7:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 2:5 ; 1 Chronicles 2:6 ; Deuteronomy 10:22 ; Genesis 45:9-11 ; Genesis 46:12 ; Genesis 46:26 ; Genesis 46:27 ; Psalms 105:23

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• Acts 7:14 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Stephen's Apology Acts 7:1-41 INTRODUCTORY WORDS After charges against Stephen had been placed, the High Priest with a show of honor, said, "Are these things so?" Stephen then stood forth and...

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• Acts 7:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Seventy — five souls — So the seventy interpreters, (whom St. Stephen follows,) one son and a grandson of Manasseh, and three children of Ephraim, being added to the seventy persons mentioned Gene...

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