Acts 7:25

25 (He thought that his own people would understand that God was going to use him to set them free, but they did not understand.)

Acts 7:25 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 7:25

For he supposed his brethren would have understood him,
&c.] From his being an Hebrew in such high life; from his wonderful birth, and miraculous preservation in his infancy, and education in Pharaoh's court; and from the promise of God that he would visit them and save them:

how that God by his hand would deliver them:
wherefore he was the more emboldened to kill the Egyptian, believing that his brethren would make no advantage of it against him; but look upon it as a beginning and pledge of their deliverance by him:

but they understood not;
or "him not", as the Ethiopic version reads; they did not understand that he was to be their deliverer, or that this action of his was a token of it.

Acts 7:25 In-Context

23 "When Moses was forty years old, he decided to find out how his fellow Israelites were being treated.

24 He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his help and took revenge on the Egyptian by killing him

25 (He thought that his own people would understand that God was going to use him to set them free, but they did not understand.)

26 The next day he saw two Israelites fighting, and he tried to make peace between them. "Listen, men,' he said, "you are fellow Israelites; why are you fighting like this?'

27 But the one who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside. "Who made you ruler and judge over us?' he asked.