<p>7:46 <em>Who found favour in the sight of God</em>- The grace he found was in that he was given the honour of being the 'father' of Messiah; the Messianic promises of 2 Sam. 7:12-14 were given to David. Luke forces the point home by using the very same words as to how Mary &quot;found favour in the sight of God&quot; (Lk. 1:30), and was chosen to be the woman through whom the Messianic promise to David came true.</p><p><em>And asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob</em>- David's desire to &quot;find&quot; a temple for God was matched by how he &quot;found&quot; (s.w.) grace with God. As we learn in 2 Sam. 7, God turned around that desire to 'find' something for Him by saying that He would 'find' something for David, namely the Son of God, the Jewish Messiah, being directly a &quot;son of David&quot;. Stephen is setting up the position that all the argument about the temple as holy place was deeply and Biblically misplaced; because God wanted to give Israel His Son, rather than have a temple. And the Judaists were back in the initially mistaken mindset of David, focusing on the physical temple rather than the spiritual house centred in God's Son, the true temple. Stephen clearly read negatively Solomon's insistence on building a physical temple.</p>