Acts 7:38

Moses was the mediator in the wilderness assembly who received living words to pass on to Israel. He delivered God's revelation, prefiguring Christ the greater Mediator.

Cross-references · 26

• Rom 3:2Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
• Heb 5:12Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!
• 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
• Deut 33:4the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• Acts 7:53you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
• Deut 32:46–47he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
• Deut 5:27–31Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
• Isa 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
• Deut 6:1–3These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
• Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• Heb 2:2For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,
• Ps 78:5–9For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
• John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
• Rom 10:6–10But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down)
• Rom 9:4the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
• Acts 7:35This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
• Num 16:3–35They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”
• Exod 21:1–11“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:
• Exod 20:19–20“Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.”
• Exod 19:3–17Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel:
• Deut 30:19–20I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
• Neh 9:13–14You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
• Acts 7:30After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
• Num 16:41–42The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”
• Gal 3:19Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

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