Like unto me (ως εμε). This same passage Peter quoted to the crowd in Solomon's Porch (Acts 3:22). Stephen undoubtedly…

This refers to what was said in Deuteronomy 18:15, 18 (see this explained in Acts 3:22). Stephen introduced this to remind them of the promise of a…

A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up.—The parallelism previously suggested is now distinctly proclaimed, and shown to be a fulfillme…

Now you see that Moses was in this way a type of Christ. God grant that we may not reject Christ, as the Israelites rejected Moses; but may we be w…

Tension is now beginning to build up in Stephen’s speech. Starting from the rather placid historical narrative of vv.2–34 and moving to the more st…

A Prophet shall God raise up. Stephen undoubtedly endeavors by these words to prove that Christ is the end of the law, although he does no…

This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel ,
&c.] What is recorded in (Deuteronomy 18:15) .