Acts 7:23
Acts 7:23
“And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →When Moses was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
What Does Acts 7:23 Mean?
Raised in the palace, Moses turned his heart toward the slave quarters. Stephen marks it as something rising within: kinship and concern that privilege had not erased.
The word for visit is the one Scripture loves to use of God looking on his people to help them (Luke 1:68). Compassion begins with choosing to go and see. Every true deliverance starts the way this one did, with a heart that will not look away.
In the Original Language
episkeptomai (ἐπισκέπτομαι), 'visit' -- to look upon with care, as God visits his people.