Asked (ηιτησατο). Aorist middle (indirect) indicative, asked for himself (as a favour to himself). Cf. 2 Samuel 7:2f.<…

Who found favour. That is, God granted him great prosperity and delivered him from his enemies.

To find a tabernacle. To p…

Who found favour before God.—Again we trace, though still in the form of a narrative, an indirect answer to the accusati…

Stephen’s assessment of Israel’s worship experience lays all the emphasis on the tabernacle, which he eulogistically calls “the tabernacle of Testi…

Who found favour before God
That is, David, who had an interest in the free favour and love of God, was chosen of Go…

Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers, to which God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking him.

It wa…