for Moses said, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me: you must listen to whatever he may tell you.

They then instigated people to say, "We have heard him talking blasphemy against Moses and God."

Why, we have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this Place and change the customs handed down to us by Moses!"

It was at this period that Moses was born, a divinely beautiful child. For three months he was brought up in his father's house;

So Moses was educated in all the culture of the Egyptians; he was a strong man in speech and action.

At that Moses fled; he became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he had two sons born to him.

When Moses saw this, he marvelled at the sight; and as he went up to look at it, the voice of the Lord said,

'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.' Moses was so terrified that he did not dare to look at the bush.

The Moses they refused, when they said, 'Who made you ruler and umpire?' ??that was the very man whom God sent to rule and to redeem them, by aid of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

(This was the Moses who told the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brotherhood, as he raised me.')

They told Aaron, 'Make gods that will march in front of us! As for this Moses who led us out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him!'

In the desert our fathers had the tent of witness as arranged by Him who told Moses to make it after the pattern he had seen.

and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.

But certain individuals came down from Jerusalem and taught the brothers that "unless you get circumcised after the custom of Moses you cannot be saved."

But some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and said, "Gentiles must be circumcised and told to observe the law of Moses."

for Moses has had his preachers from the earliest ages in every town, where he is read aloud in the synagogues every sabbath."

Now, they have heard that you teach all Jews who live among Gentiles to break away from Moses and not to circumcise their children, nor to follow the old customs.

To this day I have had the help of God in standing, as I now do, to testify alike to low and high, never uttering a single syllable beyond what the prophets and Moses predicted was to take place.

So they fixed a day and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning to evening he explained the Reign of God to them from personal testimony, and tried to convince them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.