Hechos 7:36

36 Este hombre los sacó, haciendo prodigios y señales en la tierra de Egipto, en el mar Rojo y en el desierto por cuarenta años.

Hechos 7:36 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 7:36

He brought them out
Of Egypt, and delivered them from all their oppressions in it:

after that he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt;
by turning his rod into a serpent, and by his rod swallowing up the rods of the Egyptians, and by the ten plagues, which were inflicted on Pharaoh, and his people, for not letting the children of Israel go:

and in the Red sea;
by dividing the waters of it, so that the people of Israel went through it as on dry ground, which Pharaoh and his army attempting to do, were drowned. This sea is called the Red sea, not from the natural colour of the water, which is the same with that of other seas; nor from the appearance of it through the rays of the sun upon it, or the shade of the red mountains near it; but from Erythrus, to whom it formerly belonged, and whose name signifies red; and is no other than Esau, whose name was Edom, which signifies the same; it lay near his country: it is called in the Hebrew tongue the sea of Suph, from the weeds that grew in it; and so it is in the Syriac version here:

and in the wilderness forty years;
where wonders were wrought for the people in providing food for them, and in preserving them from their enemies, when at last they were brought out of it into Canaan's land, by Joshua. This exactly agrees with what has been before observed on ( Acts 7:23 ) from the Jewish writings, that Moses was forty years in Pharaoh's court, forty years in Midian, and forty years in the wilderness.

Hechos 7:36 In-Context

34 "CIERTAMENTE HE VISTO LA OPRESION DE MI PUEBLO EN EGIPTO Y HE OIDO SUS GEMIDOS, Y HE DESCENDIDO PARA LIBRARLOS; VEN AHORA Y TE ENVIARE A EGIPTO."

35 Este Moisés, a quien ellos rechazaron, diciendo: "¿QUIEN TE HA PUESTO POR GOBERNANTE Y JUEZ?" es el mismo que Dios envió para ser gobernante y libertador con la ayuda del ángel que se le apareció en la zarza.

36 Este hombre los sacó, haciendo prodigios y señales en la tierra de Egipto, en el mar Rojo y en el desierto por cuarenta años.

37 Este es el mismo Moisés que dijo a los hijos de Israel: "DIOS OS LEVANTARA UN PROFETA COMO YO DE ENTRE VUESTROS HERMANOS."

38 Este es el que estaba en la congregación en el desierto junto con el ángel que le hablaba en el monte Sinaí, y con nuestros padres, y el que recibió palabras de vida para transmitirlas a vosotros;