<p>7:9 <i>And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph</i>- Stephen is clearly presenting Joseph as a type of the Lord. And Luke has recently used the same word to describe how it was jealousy which led the Sanhedrin and Jewish leadership to oppose the Christians (Acts 5:17).</p><p><em>Sold him</em>- Just as the Lord was 'sold' for 30 pieces of silver.</p><p><em>Into Egypt</em>- This is one of a number of aspersions that the Judaism of Stephen's day was no better than Gentile Egypt, the persecutor of God's true Israel. Or it could be that we are to see the brothers as representing the Jews, and the selling or 'handing over' of Joseph into Egypt speaks of how they handed the Lord over to the Gentiles.</p><p><em>But God was with him</em>- God being <em>meta </em>Joseph is an echo of 'Emmanuel', God with <em>meta</em> us (Mt. 1:23 cp. Jn. 3:2).</p>