Moses

“But don’t think that it is I who will be your accuser before the Father. Do you know who will accuse you? Moshe, the very one you have counted on!

For if you really believed Moshe, you would believe me; because it was about me that he wrote.

Yeshua said to them, “Yes, indeed! I tell you it wasn’t Moshe who gave you the bread from heaven. But my Father is giving you the genuine bread from heaven;

Didn’t Moshe give you the Torah? Yet not one of you obeys the Torah! Why are you out to kill me?”

Moshe gave you b’rit-milah — not that it came from Moshe but from the Patriarchs — and you do a boy’s b’rit-milah on Shabbat.

If a boy is circumcised on Shabbat so that the Torah of Moshe will not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man’s whole body well on Shabbat?

Now in our Torah, Moshe commanded that such a woman be stoned to death. What do you say about it?”

We know that God has spoken to Moshe, but as for this fellow — we don’t know where he’s from!”

For Moshe himself said, ‘Adonai will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You are to listen to everything he tells you.

So they secretly persuaded some men to allege, “We heard him speak blasphemously against Moshe and against God.”

for we have heard him say that Yeshua from Natzeret will destroy this place and will change the customs Moshe handed down to us.”

“It was then that Moshe was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. For three months he was reared in his father’s house;

So Moshe was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became both a powerful speaker and a man of action.

On hearing this, Moshe fled the country and became an exile in the land of Midyan, where he had two sons.

When Moshe saw this, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to get a better look, there came the voice of Adonai,

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov.’ But Moshe trembled with fear and didn’t dare to look.

“This Moshe, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ is the very one whom God sent as both ruler and ransomer by means of the angel that appeared to him in the thorn bush.

This is the Moshe who said to the people of Isra’el, ‘God will raise up a prophet like me from among your brothers’

saying to Aharon, ‘Make us some gods to lead us; because this Moshe, who led us out of Egypt — we don’t know what has become of him.’

“Our fathers had the Tent of Witness in the wilderness. It had been made just as God, who spoke to Moshe, had ordered it made, according to the pattern Moshe had seen.

That is, God clears everyone who puts his trust in this man, even in regard to all the things concerning which you could not be cleared by the Torah of Moshe.

But some men came down from Y’hudah to Antioch and began teaching the brothers, “You can’t be saved unless you undergo b’rit-milah in the manner prescribed by Moshe.”

But some of those who had come to trust were from the party of the P’rushim; and they stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and direct them to observe the Torah of Moshe.”

For from the earliest times, Moshe has had in every city those who proclaim him, with his words being read in the synagogues every Shabbat.”

Now what they have been told about you is that you are teaching all the Jews living among the Goyim to apostatize from Moshe, telling them not to have a b’rit-milah for their sons and not to follow the traditions.