Acts 3:22

For Moses said: A prophet, like me, will the Lord raise up to you, from among your brethren; to him hearken ye, in all that he shall say to you.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

21whom the heavens must retain, until the completion of the times of those things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets of old.

23And it will be, that every soul who will not hearken to that prophet, that soul shall perish from his people.

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Cross References

Mark 9:4And there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, in conversation with Jesus.

Luke 13:33But I must labor to-day and to-morrow, and on the following day I will go; because it cannot be, that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.

John 1:17For the law was given by the hand of Moses; but the reality and grace was by the hand of Jesus Messiah.

John 5:39Search the scriptures; for in them, ye think, there is life eternal for you; and they testify of me.

John 12:46I have come into the world, a light, that whoever believeth in me, might not abide in darkness.

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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