¹⁴ The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us?^(A) Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

¹⁴ Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?”

The Authority of Jesus Questioned^(A)

²³ Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. “By what authority^(B) are you doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave you this authority?”

¹⁴ “But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’

¹⁹ “Here comes that dreamer!^(A)” they said to each other. ²⁰ “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns^(B) and say that a ferocious animal^(C) devoured him.^(D) Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.”^(E)

⁹ “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner,^(A) and now he wants to play the judge!^(B) We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

³⁵ “This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’^(A) He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

²⁶ The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?’

²⁷ “But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?^{(A) 28} Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’^[a]