“"But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?" Mark; the very words which they said to Christ: "Who made Thee ruler and judge over us?" So habitual a thing was it for Jews to wrong their benefactors when in the act of receiving benefits!”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Acts 16
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27But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
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25For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
26And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
— Acts 7:27 —
28Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
29Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.