Acts 7:17-36 - Moses, A Rejected Savior
17 "but as the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise which God made to Abraham, the people multiplied and increased in Egypt; 18 "until there arose a king who knew not Joseph. 19 "He dealt craftily with our race, and oppressed our forefathers, by making them expose their infants so that they should not live. 20 "In this time Moses was born, a divinely beautiful child, who was brought up for three months in his father's house. 21 "When he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and brought him up as her own son. 22 "So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his words and works.
23 "And when he was forty years old it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel; 24 "and when he saw one of them wronged he wrought redress for the one overpowered, by striking down the Egyptian. 25 "(Now he supposed that his brothers would understand how God by his hand was bringing them deliverance; but they did not.) 26 "Next day he came upon two of them fighting, and tried to make peace between them. "'Sirs,' he said, 'you are brothers. Why are you wronging each other?'
27 "But the man who was ill-treating his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, "'Who made you a magistrate and ruler over us? 28 "'Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'
29 "Alarmed at this question, Moses fled from the land, and went to live in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons. 30 "But at the end of forty years there appeared to him, in the desert of Mt. Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush. 31 "When Moses saw it he was astonished at the sight. But when he drew near to look, the voice of the Lord said, 32 "I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. "And Moses trembled and dared not gaze.
33 "And the Lord said: "Take off your sandals, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. 34 "Truly I have seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groans, and am come down to rescue them; and now, come, I will send you into Egypt.
35 "This Moses whom they refused when they said, Who made you to be a ruler and a judge? that same Moses we find God sending as a ruler and a redeemer by the hand in the bush. 36 "This was he who brought them out, after he had shown signs and wonders in the wilderness, for forty years.