That there was corn (οντα σιτια). Participle (present active of ειμ) in indirect discourse, after ακουσας, "heard of corn being in…

Was corn in Egypt. The word corn here rather denotes wheat. See Barnes on Matthew 12:1.

Our fathers. His ten sons…

Now there came a famine . . .—As far as we can trace the sequence of thought, the suggested inference appears to be that just as t…

Stephen’s address next turns to the sons of Jacob, or “the twelve patriarchs” as they were known more popularly. Here Stephen’s point is that God w…

But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt It was not corn then growing or being harvested, or that year's produce…

Stephen was charged as a blasphemer of God and an apostate from the church; therefore, he shows that he is a son of Abraham and takes pride in this…