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For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
Acts 3:22 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
  • KJV For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
  • NKJV For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you.
  • NASB Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your countrymen; to Him you shall listen regarding everything He says to you.
  • NLT Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to everything he tells you.’

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Quick answer

Peter cites Moses' promise of a prophet like himself whom the people must heed. He identifies Jesus as that long-awaited Prophet.

Overview

Quoting Deuteronomy 18:15, Peter shows that Moses himself pointed forward to a coming Prophet, fulfilled in Jesus. To listen to this Prophet is to obey God. This grounds the authority of Christ in the Law that Israel revered, presenting Jesus not as a rival to Moses but as the one to whom Moses bore witness and whose word demands obedience.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • Deut 18:15–19The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
  • Acts 7:37This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
  • Gal 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
  • John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  • Heb 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
  • Heb 1:1–2On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.
  • John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
  • Luke 9:30–35Suddenly two men, Moses and Elijah, began talking with Jesus.
  • Isa 55:3–4Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
  • Heb 2:9–17But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
  • Rom 9:5Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.
  • Mark 9:4–7And Elijah and Moses appeared before them, talking with Jesus.
  • John 5:39–47You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
  • Rev 1:1This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,
  • John 12:46I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.
  • Matt 17:4–5Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If You wish, I will put up three shelters—one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
  • John 8:12Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
  • Rom 8:3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
  • Luke 13:33Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
  • Luke 24:19“What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.
  • Heb 2:1We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.

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Christ at the center

Acts is the risen Christ continuing his work by the Spirit through the church, as the apostles preach that there is salvation in no other name under heaven.

How Acts 3:22 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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