Acts 3:24

Peter continued, “All the prophets have told about what would happen during the time [MTY] in which we(inc) are living. Those prophets include Samuel and all the others who later also spoke about these events before they happened.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

In Context

23Those who do not listen to that prophet and obey him will no longer belong to God’s people, and God will get rid of them’.”

25You as well as we(exc) are the people to whom God sent the Messiah, as the prophets said [MTY] that he would. And when God strongly promised to bless our ancestors, he also surely promised to bless you. He said to Abraham concerning the Messiah, ‘ I will bless all people on the earth as a result of what your descendant will do.’”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:18As for Samuel, who was still a very young boy, he continued to do work for Yahweh, wearing a little sacred linen vest like the Supreme Priest wore.

1 Samuel 3:20So all the people of Israel, from the northern end of the country to the southern end, realized that Samuel was truly a prophet of Yahweh.

Jeremiah 15:1Then Yahweh said this to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel could come back from their graves and and stand in front of me and plead with me for these Israeli people, I would not act mercifully [IDM] toward these people. I would tell you, ‘Send them away from me. Cause them to leave me!’

Acts 3:19So, turn away from your sinful behavior and ask God to help you do what pleases him, in order that he may completely forgive you for your sins.

Acts 13:20Our ancestors began to possess Canaan about 450 years after their ancestors had arrived in Egypt.” “After that, God appointed leaders to rule the Israeli people. Those leaders continued to rule our people until the time when the prophet Samuel ruled them.

Matthew Henry on Acts 3:13-26

Peter's Address after Healing the Cripple. 12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to… Read the whole commentary →

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