Who
The son of Amram and Jochebed, of the tribe of Levi, drawn out of the Nile and raised in Pharaoh’s house (Exodus 2:10). From the burning bush God sent him to free Israel and told him his name, “I AM WHO I AM” (Exodus 3:14). He led the people out of Egypt and through the sea, received the Law on Sinai, and spoke with God “face to face” (Deuteronomy 34:10), yet “was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth” (Numbers 12:3). He foretold “a prophet … like me” (Deuteronomy 18:15), whom the apostles knew as Christ (Acts 3:22), and he appeared with him at the Transfiguration (Matthew 17:3). Gregory of Nyssa saw in the bush that burned and was not consumed the Virgin who bore the Light and remained a virgin.
Key verses
- Exodus 2:10
The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
- Exodus 3:14
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
- Numbers 12:3
Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
- Numbers 26:59
The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
- Deuteronomy 18:15
The LORD your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
- Matthew 17:3
Behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with him.
Where the Bible names him
Named 805 times in 35 books.
- ✓ In the deuterocanon, which the verse index does not cover: found in the text and checked by hand.
Verse index: TIPNR, STEPBible.org (Tyndale House), CC BY 4.0.
Family
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Comments on the verses that name him (8 of 117).
- Remigius of Auxerre on Matthew 17:2–4Catena Aurea on Matthew
In this Transfiguration undergone on the mount, the Lord fulfilled within six days the promise made to His disciples, that they should have a sight of His glory; as it is said, “And after six days he took Peter, and…
- Jerome on Matthew 17:2–4Catena Aurea on Matthew
It is made a question how it could be after six days that He took them, when Luke says eight. The answer is easy, that here one reckoned only the intervening days, there the first and the last are also added.
- John Chrysostom on Matthew 17:2–4Catena Aurea on Matthew
He does not take them up immediately upon the promise being made, but six days after, for this reason, that the other disciples might not be touched with any human passion, as a feeling of jealousy; or else that…
- Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 17:2–4Catena Aurea on Matthew
Justly was it after six days that He shewed His glory, because after six ages is to be the resurrection [ed. note: See the Oxford Translation of S. Cyprian, Tr. xiii, n.a.]
- Origen on Matthew 17:2–4Catena Aurea on Matthew
Or because in six days this whole visible world was made; so he who is above all the things of this world, may ascend into the high mountain, and there see the glory of the Word of God.
- John Chrysostom on Matthew 17:2–4 (2)Catena Aurea on Matthew
He took these three because He set them before others. But observe how Matthew does not conceal who were preferred to himself; the like does John also when he records the preeminent praise given to Peter. For the…
- Hilary of Poitiers on Matthew 17:2–4Catena Aurea on Matthew
In the three thus taken up with Him, the election of people out of the three stocks of Sem, Cam, and Japhet is figured.
- Rabanus Maurus on Matthew 17:2–4 (2)Catena Aurea on Matthew
Or; He took only three disciples with Him, because many are called but few chosen. Or because they who now hold in incorrupt mind the faith of the Holy Trinity, shall then joy in the everlasting beholding of it.