Acts 7:37

37 This is the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, "`God will raise up a Prophet for you, from among your brethren, just as He raised me up.'

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 "The Moses whom they rejected, asking him, `Who appointed you magistrate and judge?' --that same Moses we find God sending as a magistrate and a deliverer by the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

36 This was he who brought them out, after performing marvels and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea, and in the Desert for forty years.

37 This is the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, "`God will raise up a Prophet for you, from among your brethren, just as He raised me up.'

38 `This is he who was among the Congregation in the Desert, together with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and with our forefathers, who received ever-living utterances to hand on to us.

39 "Our forefathers, however, would not submit to him, but spurned his authority and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.