²⁸ And they said to Him, “By what ^(A)authority are You doing these things? And who gave You this authority to do these things?”

¹⁴ Then he said, ^(A)“Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”

So Moses ^(B)feared and said, “Surely this thing is known!”

Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

⁵¹ “You ^(A)stiff-necked^[a] and ^(B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

^38 (A)“This is he who was in the ^[a]congregation in the wilderness with ^(B)the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, ^(C)the one who received the living ^(D)oracles^[b] to give to us, ³⁹ whom our fathers ^(E)would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

²⁷ But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ^(A)‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?’

¹³ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of ^(A)a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you should ^(B)keep acting like a prince over us?

^3 (A)They gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “You ^[a]take too much upon yourselves, for ^(B)all the congregation is holy, every one of them, ^(C)and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”