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A Picture of Christ
Commentators suggest Stephen is drawing a powerful parallel. Just as the patriarchs, facing a famine, had to turn for physical sustenance to Joseph—the brother they had rejected—Stephen implies his audience must turn for spiritual sustenance to Jesus, the Messiah they had rejected and crucified.
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Albert Barnes
On Acts 7:11
18th Century
Theologian
Now there came a dearth. A famine (Genesis 41:54).
And Chanaan. Jacob was living at that time in Canaan.
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AT Robertson
On Acts 7:11
Found no sustenance (ουχ ηυρισκον χορτασματα). Imperfect active, kept on not finding.
Chortasmata is from<…
Charles Ellicott
On Acts 7:11–14
19th Century
Bishop
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…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Acts 7:11
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…
John Calvin
On Acts 7:11
16th Century
Theologian
There came a famine. This shows that the deliverance of Joseph was a benefit common to all the family of Jacob. For, as the famine approac…
John Gill
On Acts 7:11
17th Century
Pastor
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt, and
Canaan
This dearth, or famine…
Matthew Henry
On Acts 7:1–16
17th Century
Minister
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…