Later text
Acts 7:36BSB
He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
Intertextuality Pair
Acts 7:36 → Exodus 3:12
Allusion
Earlier text
Exodus 3:12BSB
"I will surely be with you," God said, "and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain."
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Earlier text
Exodus 7:3BSB
But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
Earlier text
Exodus 10:19BSB
And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.
Earlier text
Exodus 16:35BSB
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
Significance
"He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness" (Acts 7:36). Stephen presents Moses as the mighty deliverer accredited by God's own works — the very shape of ministry God would authenticate again in "Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs" (Acts 2:22). Moses, once rejected, is now shown to be God's chosen redeemer, vindicated by the exodus he accomplished. The signs that marked his deliverance were a genuine, God-given foreshadowing of the greater Deliverer whose works declared the kingdom present and who led the true exodus out of bondage — the God-attested Savior Israel again refused.
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