Acts 7:28
in Acts 7Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
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ASV
Wouldest thou kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?
KJV
Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
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This verse in Acts 7
Commentary
8 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
two Israelites who were fighting
on Acts 7:26-29
An Israelite rebuffs Moses's attempt to reconcile, asking who made him ruler and judge, and the rejection drives Moses to Midian. Moses is refused as the patriarchs sold Joseph, and as this council has delivered up Jesus.
This site's exposition
as you killed the Egyptian
Matthew Henry reads the question as a threat to report Moses for the killing. Albert Barnes suggests the deed became known through the Hebrew whom Moses had rescued. Chrysostom sees a benefactor repaid with betrayal.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
Mark; the very words which they said to Christ: "Who made Thee ruler and judge over us?" So habitual a thing was it for Jews to wrong (their benefactors) when in the act of receiving benefits! And again, mark the atrocious baseness: "As thou didst the Egyptian yesterday! Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons." But neither did flight extinguish the plan of Providence, as neither did death (i.e. the death of Christ).
He declares, then, that this ingratitude arose from here, and against the benefactors [εὐεργέτας] it was treacherous among the Jews. For Moses, who in anger once struck down the wrongdoer, his fellow-countryman, is now treated with leniency toward the wrongdoer. But he who used his …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
, charging that upon him as his crime, and threatening to accuse him for it, which was the hanging out of the flag of defiance to the Egyptians, and the banner of love and deliverance to Israel.
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Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday? That is, is it thy will? dost thou design to kill me? or, as in Exo 2:14 "intendest" thou to kill me?
He applies this to those that prosecuted him, and sat in judgment upon him, sharply reproving them for their wickedness, by which they had brought upon themselves the ruin of their place and nation, and then could not bear to hear of it,
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Wilt thou kill me ... - How it was known that he had killed the Egyptian does not appear. It was probably communicated by the man who was rescued from the hands of the Egyptian, Exo 2:11-12.
The words behind it
11 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| μὴ | me | Surely not | G3361 → | 1066 times |
| ἀνελεῖν | anelein | to execute | G337 → | 24 times |
| με | me | me | G3165 → | 1936 times |
| σὺ | su | you yourself | G4771 → | 2973 times |
| θέλεις | theleis | desire | G2309 → | 208 times |
| ὃν | hon | [the] same | G3739 → | 1405 times |
| τρόπον | tropon | way | G5158 → | 13 times |
| ἀνεῖλες | aneiles | you executed | G337 → | 24 times |
| ἐχθὲς | echthes | yesterday | G5504 → | |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| Αἰγύπτιον; | aiguption | Egyptian?’ | G124 → | 5 times |
μὴSurely not
meG3361 →1066 times
ἀνελεῖνto execute
aneleinG337 →24 times
μεme
meG3165 →1936 times
σὺyou yourself
suG4771 →2973 times
θέλειςdesire
theleisG2309 →208 times
ὃν[the] same
honG3739 →1405 times
τρόπονway
troponG5158 →13 times
ἀνεῖλεςyou executed
aneilesG337 →24 times
ἐχθὲςyesterday
echthesG5504 →
τὸνthe
tonG3588 →19766 times
Αἰγύπτιον;Egyptian?’
aiguptionG124 →5 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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Studies38
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- Abraham
- Brit milah: circumcision on the eighth day
- Chaldea
- Circumcision of the Heart
- Egypt's Famine Years and the Land of Pharaoh
- Father, Forgive Them
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- Amos and the Courts at the Gate
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- Mourning and Burial in Israel
- Outside the Camp
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- Prophet, Priest and King: The Threefold Office of Christ
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About Acts
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Chrysostom, Homily on Acts 16; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Oecumenius, Commentary on Acts.