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This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, `The Lord God will raise up a prophet to you from among your brothers, like me.`
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Moses Testifies for Jesus
Commentators highlight this as the peak of Stephen's argument. He brilliantly uses the accusers' own hero, Moses, against them. By quoting Moses's prophecy from Deuteronomy 18 about a future prophet 'like me,' Stephen proves that to truly follow Moses is to accept Jesus, the very prophet Moses foretold. Therefore, rejecting Jesus is actually a rejection of Moses.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This refers to what was said in Deuteronomy 18:15, 18 (see this explained in Acts 3:22). Stephen introduced this to remind them of the promise of a…
Like unto me (ως εμε). This same passage Peter quoted to the crowd in Solomon's Porch (Acts 3:22). Stephen undoubtedly…
19th Century
Anglican
A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up.—The parallelism previously suggested is now distinctly proclaimed, and shown to be a fulfillme…
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Baptist
Now you see that Moses was in this way a type of Christ. God grant that we may not reject Christ, as the Israelites rejected Moses; but may we be w…
Tension is now beginning to build up in Stephen’s speech. Starting from the rather placid historical narrative of vv.2–34 and moving to the more st…
16th Century
Protestant
A Prophet shall God raise up. Stephen undoubtedly endeavors by these words to prove that Christ is the end of the law, although he does no…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel , &c.] What is recorded in (Deuteronomy 18:15) .
People deceive themselves if they think God cannot do what He sees to be good anywhere; He can bring His people into a wilderness and there speak c…
