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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
- 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 18:15–19Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
- Acts 7:37This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’
- Gal 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
- John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
- Heb 5:9Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
- Heb 1:1–2God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
- John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
- Luke 9:30–35Behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,
- Isa 55:3–4Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Heb 2:9–17But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
- Rom 9:5of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
- Mark 9:4–7Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.
- John 5:39–47“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
- Rev 1:1This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
- John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
- Matt 17:4–5Peter answered, and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you want, let’s make three tents here: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
- John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
- Luke 13:33Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.’
- Luke 24:19He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
- Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
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