Study Desk

And when they had prayed earnestly, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with confidence.

While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your authority? Why is it that you laid this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."

But Peter and the apostles answered and said, "We must obey God rather than men.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you put to death by hanging Him on a tree.

This One God exalted to His right hand as a Leader and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God gave to those who obey Him."

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them; or you may even be found fighting against God."

So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, "It is not pleasing to God for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

And the word of God kept on spreading, and the number of the disciples continued to multiply greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

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

And he said, "Hear me, brothers and fathers! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.

But God spoke in this way, that his seed would be sojourners in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

‘And I Myself will judge the nation to which they will be enslaved,' said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve Me in this place.'

"And the patriarchs, becoming jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him,

"But as the time of the promise was drawing near which God had assured to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

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.

And he supposed that his brothers understood that God was granting them salvation through him, but they did not understand.

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.' Moses trembled with fear and would not dare 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 bush.