The high priest said, “Are these things so?” Jhn 18:19-21Mat 26:61-62Act 6:13-14Jhn 18:33-35Mrk 14:58-60
He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, Act 22:1Gen 11:31Psa 29:3Heb 1:3Jhn 1:14Neh 9:7Gen 15:71Co 2:8 and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’ 1 Gen 12:1Heb 11:8Gen 15:7Jos 24:32Co 6:17Luk 14:33Mat 10:37Neh 9:8 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land where you are now living. Gen 12:4-5Gen 11:31-32Isa 41:2Isa 41:9 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child. Gen 17:8Gen 12:7Gen 13:15Gen 15:18Gen 26:3Deu 10:11Deu 11:9Deu 2:5 God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years. Gen 15:13Exo 12:40-41Gal 3:17Gen 15:16 ‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve me in this place.’ 2 Exo 3:12Psa 105:27-36Exo 7:1-14Gen 15:14-16Neh 9:9-11Psa 135:8-9Psa 136:10-15Psa 74:12-14 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs. Gen 17:9-14Gen 35:23-261Ch 1:341Ch 2:1-2Act 2:29Exo 1:1-4Gal 3:15Gal 3:17
“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him Gen 39:2Psa 105:17Isa 43:2Gen 45:4Isa 41:10Gen 37:18-29Gen 39:21-23Gen 39:5 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house. 2Ti 4:18Pro 3:4Gen 48:16Pro 2:6Psa 22:24Gen 42:6Psa 34:17-19Gen 41:12-46 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food. Gen 41:54-57Gen 42:5Gen 43:1Gen 45:11Gen 45:5-6Gen 47:13-15Psa 105:16 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time. Gen 42:1-24Gen 43:2 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family was revealed to Pharaoh. Gen 45:1-18Gen 46:31 Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his relatives, seventy-five souls. Deu 10:22Gen 46:26-27Exo 1:51Ch 2:5-6Gen 45:9-11Gen 46:12Psa 105:23 Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers; Exo 1:6Gen 49:33Gen 46:3-7Deu 10:22Deu 26:5Heb 11:21-22Jos 24:4Num 20:15 and they were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem. Jos 24:32Gen 23:16Exo 13:19Gen 33:9-20Gen 34:2-31Gen 49:29-32Gen 50:13Gen 35:19
“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, Exo 1:7-12Act 13:17Act 7:6Gen 15:13-16Psa 105:24-252Pe 3:8-9Exo 1:20 until there arose a different king who didn’t know Joseph. Exo 1:8 The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive. Psa 105:25Exo 1:9-22Psa 83:4-5Rev 12:4-5Psa 129:1-3 At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome to God. He was nourished three months in his father’s house. Heb 11:23Exo 2:2-101Sa 16:12 When he was abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up and reared him as her own son. Heb 11:24Deu 32:26Exo 2:2-10 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works. Isa 19:112Ch 9:22Dan 1:17-20Dan 1:4Luk 24:191Ki 4:29-30 But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, 3 the children of Israel. Exo 2:11-12Heb 11:24-26Php 2:12-13Pro 21:1Ezr 7:27Jas 1:17Rev 17:172Ch 30:12 Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian. Jhn 18:10-11Act 7:28Jhn 18:25-27 He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand. 1Co 15:102Co 6:1Luk 18:34Luk 9:451Co 3:91Sa 14:451Sa 19:52Ki 5:1
“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’ Exo 2:13-151Jn 3:11-151Co 6:6-8Gen 13:8Gen 45:24Jhn 15:17-18Php 2:1Php 2:3 But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Luk 12:14Act 7:35Pro 9:7-81Sa 25:14-15Act 3:13-15Act 4:11-12Act 4:7Act 5:33 Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ 4 Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons. Exo 18:2-4Exo 2:14-22Exo 4:19-20
“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. Exo 3:1-2Act 7:35Isa 43:2Act 7:32Exo 3:6Isa 63:9Act 7:17Dan 3:27 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, the voice of the Lord came to him, Exo 3:3-4 ‘I am the God of your fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ 5 Moses trembled and dared not look. Exo 3:6Mat 22:321Ki 19:13Act 3:13Act 9:4-6Dan 10:7-8Exo 3:15Exo 33:20 The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground. Exo 3:5Jos 5:152Pe 1:18Ecc 5:1 I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’ 6 Exo 3:7-10Exo 4:31Neh 9:9Psa 106:44Exo 2:23-25Exo 3:14Jhn 6:38Hos 12:13
“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. Luk 19:14Psa 118:22-23Num 20:16Psa 113:7-8Psa 75:7Exo 14:191Sa 10:271Sa 12:8 This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. Exo 12:41Exo 14:21Exo 33:1Exo 14:27-29Exo 16:35Exo 7:1-14Psa 78:12-33Act 13:18 This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’ 7 8 Deu 18:15-19Act 3:22-23Jhn 18:37Act 7:38Mat 17:3-5Luk 9:30-31Luk 9:35Mrk 9:7 This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us, Rom 3:2Heb 5:121Pe 4:11Act 7:53Deu 33:4Jhn 1:17Deu 32:46-47Deu 5:27-31 to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, Num 14:3-4Num 11:5Neh 9:16-17Act 7:51-52Exo 16:3Ezk 20:6-141Ki 2:27Exo 14:11-12 saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’ 9 Exo 32:1Exo 32:23 They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. Psa 106:19-21Neh 9:18Hab 2:18-20Hos 9:1Hos 9:10Rev 9:20Deu 9:12-18Exo 32:17-20 But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, 10 as it is written in the book of the prophets, Amo 5:25-26Ezk 20:39Jer 19:13Psa 81:11-12Deu 4:19Heb 3:15-17Isa 63:10Job 31:26-28
‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
You took up the tabernacle of Moloch, Amo 5:26-27Exo 20:4-5Deu 5:8-9Lev 20:2-52Ki 17:16-182Ki 18:112Ki 21:6Deu 4:16-18
the star of your god Rephan,
the figures which you made to worship,
so I will carry you away 11 beyond Babylon.’
“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen; Exo 25:40Exo 38:21Heb 8:51Ch 28:111Ch 28:192Ch 24:6Exo 25:8-9Exo 26:30 which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations whom God drove out before the face of our fathers to the days of David, Psa 44:2Jos 18:1Jos 23:9Jos 24:181Ch 15:1-171Ch 16:391Ch 21:291Ki 8:4 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob. Psa 132:1-5Act 13:222Sa 7:1-51Ch 17:1-41Ch 22:7-81Sa 16:11Sa 16:11-132Sa 6:21 But Solomon built him a house. 1Ki 8:201Ki 6:37-382Sa 7:131Ch 17:11Ki 5:11Ki 7:13-512Ch 2:1-42Ch 3:1 However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says, Act 17:24-25Isa 66:1-21Ki 8:272Ch 2:5-62Ch 6:18Psa 91:9Psa 91:1Dan 4:17
‘heaven is my throne, Isa 66:1Psa 11:4Jhn 4:21Jer 23:24Rev 3:211Ki 22:19Mat 23:22Mat 5:34-35
and the earth a footstool for my feet.
What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord.
‘Or what is the place of my rest?
Didn’t my hand make all these things?’ 12 Jer 32:17Isa 66:2Psa 33:6-9Act 14:15Exo 20:11Isa 40:28Isa 45:12Isa 45:7-8
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. Deu 10:16Eph 4:30Isa 63:10Jer 4:4Lev 26:41Php 3:3Exo 33:5Exo 32:9 Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers. Mat 5:121Ki 19:102Ch 36:161Th 2:15Act 3:14-15Jer 2:30Luk 11:47-51Mat 23:31-37 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!” Heb 2:2Gal 3:19Act 7:38Deu 33:2Jhn 7:19Gal 6:13Ezk 20:18-21Rom 2:23-25
Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. Act 5:33Psa 35:16Job 16:9Luk 13:28Mat 13:50Mat 25:30Act 22:22-23Lam 2:16 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, Mrk 16:19Heb 1:32Co 4:6Act 6:10Act 6:5Act 6:8Heb 8:1Psa 109:31 and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” Mat 26:64-65Act 10:11Rev 11:19Mat 3:16Rev 19:11Act 10:16Dan 7:13-14Rev 4:1
But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears, then rushed at him with one accord. Zec 7:11Act 23:27Psa 58:4Act 21:27-31Act 7:54Pro 21:13 They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. Act 22:20Act 8:1Act 6:13Lev 24:14-161Ki 21:13Act 22:4Deu 13:9-10Deu 17:7 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” Luk 23:46Psa 31:5Act 22:161Co 1:2Act 2:21Act 9:14Jol 2:32Act 9:21 He kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep. Mat 5:44Luk 23:341Co 15:201Th 4:13-14Rom 12:14-21Act 20:36Act 9:40Luk 6:28