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The Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament surveys each book of the New Testament at several levels—Book, Division, Section, Pericope, Paragraph, and Unit—providing contextually appropriate commentary on each level. The reader of the commentary can easily ascertain the contextual importance of any larger section, or pericope, or even a particular verse of Scripture.

(7:37–43) Although God delivered Israel from Egyptian bondage through Moses (7:36), Stephen asserts that the Israelites rejected this Moses, who also prophesied about another prophet (7:37–38). The Israelite ancestors rejected Moses’ leadership in the wilderness, complained, and made and worshiped a golden calf (7:39–41). Consequently, God rejected them, as Amos (5:25–27 LXX) prophesied (7:42–43). 7:37 Stephen identifies the Moses whom God chose to deliver Israel from
Acts 7:37–43