“His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ (Matthew 25:23 ESV). This Scripture quote is from the Parable of the Talents. Matthews gospel has this parable arranged in alignment with Jesus discussion

“And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD (Exodus 24:4 ESV). The first five books of the Bible were written by Moses under Gods inspiration. This is how the Bible came to be: God spoke and men wrote. Paradoxically both fully human and fully divine. The Bible contains sixty-six books written by over

You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9 ESV). God inspired Moses to write this instruction, including an appeal to the memories of the Israelites. Namely, that they should remember how it felt to be oppressed as sojourners in

“And God spoke all these words, saying (Exodus 20:1 ESV). Did you know that God actually spoke the Ten Commandments aloud from Mount Sinai for all the Israelites to hear? Before God wrote the Decalogue down onto stone tablets, He actually spoke them aloud from Mount Sinai for all the Israelites to hear. A literal

“But Moses hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun (Exodus 17:12 ESV). As

“Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water (Exodus 15:27 ESV). As they traveled on, the Israelites came to Elim, an oasis located along the Eastern side of the Red Sea near the desert of Sin. It must have been

When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near (Exodus 13:17 ESV). Why did God lead the Israelites the long way around to the Promised Land? He wanted to give them time to grow in their faith before facing warfare with

And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once (Matthew 21:19 ESV). The morning after Jesus had overturned the tables of the money changers

“The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt (Exodus 12:13 ESV). The Lord instructed Moses to have each household choose a male

“The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein (Psalm 24:1 ESV). This psalm of David begins with an announcement of Gods ownership of everything and everyone. David declared that since God had created all things, He therefore owned all things. This meant that David saw himself not