your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life, but I cannot flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die.
Acts 7:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But the man who was wronging his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Whereupon the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed [Moses] aside, saying, Who appointed you a ruler (umpire) and a judge over us? American Standard Version (1901) But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? Common English Bible The one who started the fight against his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, “‘Who appointed you as our leader and judge?” Catholic Public Domain Version But he who was causing the injury to his neighbor rejected him, saying: 'Who has appointed you as leader and judge over us? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But he that did the injury to his neighbour thrust him away, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us? |
your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life, but I cannot flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die.
He answered, “Who made you a ruler and judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “Surely the thing is known.”
When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”
But he said to him, “Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?”
When they had made the prisoners stand in their midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”
“It was this Moses whom they rejected when they said, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ and whom God now sent as both ruler and liberator through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him; instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,
When they heard these things, they became enraged and ground their teeth at Stephen.