Moses

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”

But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)

But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)

If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?

In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?”

Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.”

For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.

Then they prompted some men to say, “We heard Stephen speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.”

For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

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.

So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.

When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

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.

But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?

At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.

After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight. As he approached to look more closely, the voice of the Lord came to him:

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.

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.

This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”

For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.

But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.

For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”

I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,

We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.

And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.

He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.

For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.

For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, a tribe as to which Moses said nothing about priests.

The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.

The sight was so terrifying that even Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”

But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

…and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!