Exodus 3:12
12He said, a“But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, byou shall serve God on this mountain.”Exodus 4:1-9
Moses Given Powerful Signs
1Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” 2The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, c“A staff.” 3And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it. 4But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand— 5“that they may dbelieve that the Lord, ethe God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.” 6Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” ▼▼Hebrew into your bosom; also verse 7
And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was gleprous ▼▼Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
like snow. 7Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, iit was restored like the rest of his flesh. 8“If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign. 9If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile jwill become blood on the dry ground.” Exodus 7:9
9“When Pharaoh says to you, k‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”Deuteronomy 18:22
22 lwhen a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; mthe prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.Zechariah 2:9
9“Behold, nI will shake my hand over them, oand they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then pyou will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.Zechariah 4:9
9 q“The hands of rZerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also scomplete it. tThen you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.John 5:36
36But uthe testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For vthe works that the Father has given me wto accomplish, the very works that I am doing, xbear witness about me that ythe Father has sent me.John 11:42
42 zI knew that you always hear me, but I said this aaon account of the people standing around, abthat they may believe that you sent me.”John 14:11
11Believe me that acI am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else adbelieve on account of the works themselves.
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