Acts 7:37

37 "This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear.'

Acts 7:37 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 7:37

This is that Moses which said unto the children of Israel,
&c.] What is recorded in ( Deuteronomy 18:15 ) .

a prophet
(See Gill on Acts 3:22).

Acts 7:37 In-Context

35 This Moses whom they rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.
36 He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37 "This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear.'
38 This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us,
39 whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Deuteronomy 18:15
  • [b]. NU-Text and M-Text omit Him you shall hear.
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