In this chapter things are working, though slowly, towards Joseph’s advancement. I. Two of Pharaoh’s servants are committed to prison, and there to Joseph’s care, and so become witnesses of his extraordinary conduct, Gen. 40:1–4. II.

We should not have had this story of Pharaoh’s butler and baker recorded in scripture if it had not been serviceable to Joseph’s preferment. The world stands for the sake of the church, and is governed for its good. Observe, 1.

Observe, I. The special providence of God, which filled the heads of these two prisoners with unusual dreams, such as made extraordinary impressions upon them, and carried with them evidences of a divine origin, both in one night.

Here is, 1. The verifying of Joseph’s interpretation of the dreams, on the very day prefixed. The chief butler and baker were both advanced, one to his office, the other to the gallows, and both at the three days’ end.