Acts 7:27

The wrongdoer rebuffed Moses, denying his authority to rule or judge. This rejection of Moses' leadership mirrors Israel's repeated rejection of God's appointed messengers.

Cross-references · 14

• Luke 12:14But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”
• Prov 9:7–8He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
• Acts 7:35“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.
• Gen 19:19See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
• Matt 21:23When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
• Acts 5:33But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.
• Acts 4:11–12He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’
• John 18:36–37Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”
• Acts 3:13–15The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
• 1 Sam 25:14–15But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he insulted them.
• Acts 7:54Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
• John 19:12–15At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
• Acts 4:7When they had stood them in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”
• Acts 7:39to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

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