Acts 7:17-36 - Moses, A Rejected Savior
17 But as the time of the promise approached that God swore to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18 until another king arose who had not known Joseph. 19 This man, who cunningly victimized our race, mistreated our fathers to make their infants be placed outside in order not to keep alive. 20 During which time Moses was born (and he was well-formed by God) who was reared three months in his father's house. 21 And when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him away, and reared him for a son to herself. 22 And Moses was reared in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
23 But when a forty year time span was fulfilled by him, it came into his heart to go help his brothers, the sons of Israel. 24 And after seeing a certain man suffering wrong, he defended him, and did vengeance for the man being oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian. 25 And he presumed his brothers understood that, by his hand, God was giving them salvation, but they did not understand. 26 And on the next day he was seen by them as they fought, and he was reconciling them for peace, having said, Men, ye are brothers. Why is it that ye wrong each other?
27 But the man doing wrong to his neighbor thrust him away, having said, Who appointed thee a ruler and a judge over us? 28 Do thou not want to kill me, as thou killed the Egyptian yesterday?
29 And Moses fled at this word, and became an alien in the land of Midian, where he begot two sons. 30 And forty years having been fulfilled, an agent of Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai in a flame of fire of a bush. 31 And when Moses looked, he wondered at the sight. And as he approached to examine, a voice of Lord came to him, 32 I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. But Moses, who developed trembling, dared not examine.
33 And the Lord said to him, Put off the shoes from thy feet, for the place on which thou stand is holy ground. 34 Having looked, I saw the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I heard their groaning, and I came down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35 This Moses whom they refused, having said, Who appointed thee a ruler and a judge? This man God sent, a ruler and a liberator by the hand of the heavenly agent who appeared to him in the bush. 36 This man brought them forth after performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.