They were praising God and enjoying the good will of all the people. Every day the Lord was adding to their number those who were being saved.

"The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything he tells you. Any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

It was this Moses who told the Israelis, "God will raise up a prophet for you from among your own brothers, just as he did me.'

At this Paul told him, "God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! How can you sit there and judge me according to the Law, and yet in violation of the Law order me to be struck?"