THEOSISJohn Chrysostom
He recounts that during his imprisonment with the baker, he experienced a dream and received an interpretation from Joseph, which subsequently came to pass just as he had foretold.
Genesis 41:12Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
There was there a young man a Hebrew, servant to the same captain of the soldiers: to whom we told our dreams,
וְשָׁ֨ם אִתָּ֜נוּ נַ֣עַר עִבְרִ֗י עֶ֚בֶד לְשַׂ֣ר הַטַּבָּחִ֔ים וַנְּ֨סַפֶּר־ל֔וֹ וַיִּפְתָּר־לָ֖נוּ אֶת־חֲלֹמֹתֵ֑ינוּ אִ֥ישׁ כַּחֲלֹמ֖וֹ פָּתָֽר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 40:12Joseph answered: This is the interpretation of the dream: The three branches, are yet three days:
- Gen 40:19After which Pharao will take thy head from thee, and hang thee on a cross, and the birds shall tear thy flesh.
- Gen 37:36The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.
- Gen 39:20And cast Joseph into the prison, where the king's prisoners were kept, and he was there shut up.
- Gen 39:1And Joseph was brought into Egypt, and Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the Ismaelites, by whom he was brought.