Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren; to Him you shall give heed to everything He says to you.

Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.”

for we have heard him say that this Nazarene, Jesus, will destroy this place and alter the customs which Moses handed down to us.”

It was at this time that Moses was born; and he was lovely in the sight of God, and he was nurtured three months in his father’s home.

Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds.

At this remark, Moses fled and became an alien in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely, there came the voice of the Lord:

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses shook with fear and would not venture to look.

“This Moses whom they disowned, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush.

This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren.’

saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us; for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt—we do not know what happened to him.’

“Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen.

and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses.”

For Moses from ancient generations has in every city those who preach him, since he is read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

So, having obtained help from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, stating nothing but what the Prophets and Moses said was going to take place;

When they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening.