Quotes about Moses
For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
- Acts 6:14
At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
- Acts 7:20
So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
- Acts 7:22
When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
- Acts 7:23
And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.
- Acts 7:24
But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?
- Acts 7:27
At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
- Acts 7:29
After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
- Acts 7:30
When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came to him:
- Acts 7:31
‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
- Acts 7:32
I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’
- Acts 7:34
This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
- Acts 7:35