Acts 3:22 Study Bible: For Moses indeed said to the fathers, 'The Lord your God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You must listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.

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For Moses said, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.

Study Bible

For Moses said
This phrase refers to a prophecy given by Moses, found in Deuteronomy 18:15-19. Moses, as a central figure in the Old Testament, was a prophet, leader, and lawgiver. His words carried significant authority among the Israelites, and his prophecies were considered foundational to Jewish expectations of a coming Messiah.

‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet
This prophecy speaks of a future prophet whom God Himself will appoint. The phrase "raise up" indicates divine action and selection, emphasizing that this prophet will be chosen by God, not by human decision. This aligns with the Jewish expectation of a Messiah, a divinely appointed leader who would guide and deliver Israel.

like me
Moses was a unique prophet who spoke with God face to face and led the Israelites out of Egypt. The comparison "like me" suggests that the coming prophet would have a similar intimate relationship with God and a significant role in delivering and guiding God's people. This is seen as a typology of Jesus Christ, who is considered the ultimate fulfillment of this prophecy, as He is both a prophet and the Son of God.

from among your brothers
This indicates that the prophet would be an Israelite, coming from the Jewish people. It emphasizes the continuity of God's covenant with Israel and His faithfulness to His promises. Jesus, being born into a Jewish family, fulfills this aspect of the prophecy, reinforcing His role as the promised Messiah to the Jewish nation.

You must listen to Him
This command underscores the authority of the coming prophet. Listening implies obedience and submission to His teachings and commands. In the New Testament, Jesus is often portrayed as one who speaks with authority, and His teachings are central to Christian doctrine. This phrase highlights the importance of heeding His words for guidance and salvation.

in everything He tells you
The scope of the prophet's authority is comprehensive, covering all aspects of life and faith. This reflects the belief that Jesus' teachings are complete and sufficient for guiding believers in all matters of faith and practice. It also points to the necessity of accepting Jesus' message in its entirety, as partial acceptance would not fulfill the command to listen to Him in everything.

Persons / Places / Events

1. Moses
A central figure in the Old Testament, Moses is the prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and received the Law from God on Mount Sinai. In this verse, he is quoted as prophesying about a future prophet.

2. The Lord your God
Refers to Yahweh, the God of Israel, who is the ultimate authority and the one who will raise up the prophet.

3. A Prophet like Moses
This is a reference to Jesus Christ, who is seen as the fulfillment of Moses' prophecy. Jesus, like Moses, is a mediator between God and His people.

4. The Israelites (Your Brothers)
The original audience of Moses' prophecy, representing the people of Israel, from whom the prophet would arise.

5. Peter's Sermon
This event takes place during Peter's sermon in Solomon's Colonnade, where he addresses the people of Israel after healing a lame man, using this prophecy to point to Jesus as the Messiah.

Teaching Points

The Fulfillment of Prophecy
Jesus is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies, affirming the continuity and reliability of Scripture.

The Authority of Jesus
As the prophet like Moses, Jesus holds divine authority, and we are called to listen to Him in all things.

The Importance of Obedience
Just as the Israelites were commanded to listen to the prophet, we are called to obey Jesus' teachings in our daily lives.

The Role of Prophets
Prophets serve as God's messengers, and their words are vital for understanding God's will and purpose.

The Unity of Scripture
The New Testament consistently affirms and fulfills the Old Testament, showing the unity and coherence of God's redemptive plan.

Bible Study Questions

1. How does understanding Moses' role as a prophet help us appreciate the significance of Jesus being "a prophet like Moses"?

2. In what ways can we ensure that we are listening to Jesus in everything He tells us today?

3. How does the fulfillment of prophecy in Jesus strengthen your faith in the reliability of Scripture?

4. What are some practical steps you can take to obey Jesus' teachings more fully in your daily life?

5. How can the comparison between Moses and Jesus in Hebrews 3:1-6 deepen our understanding of Jesus' role and mission?

Connections to Other Scriptures

Deuteronomy 18:15-19
This is the original prophecy given by Moses, which Peter quotes in Acts 3:22. It establishes the expectation of a prophet like Moses.

John 1:45
Philip identifies Jesus as the one Moses wrote about in the Law, connecting Jesus directly to the prophecy in Deuteronomy.

Hebrews 3:1-6
This passage compares Jesus to Moses, highlighting Jesus' superiority and faithfulness as a Son over God's house.

Sermons

A Great Sermon to a Wondering Multitude	R.A. Redford	Acts 3:11-26
A Greater Miracle	J. Parker, D. D.	Acts 3:11-26
Credit Due to Christ	H. W. Beecher.	Acts 3:11-26
Glory Due to Christ	J. Spencer.	Acts 3:11-26
Glory to be Given to God	H. W. Beecher.	Acts 3:11-26
Misapprehensions Removed	A. Hudson.	Acts 3:11-26
Peter's Address	J. T. McCrory.	Acts 3:11-26
Peter's Address	Monday Club	Acts 3:11-26
Peter's Address	J. Bennett, D. D.	Acts 3:11-26
Peter's Sermon	C. S. Robinson, D. D.	Acts 3:11-26
Peter's Speech	J. Parker, D. D.	Acts 3:11-26
Show Me the Doctor		Acts 3:11-26
Solomon's Porch	Dean Plumptre.	Acts 3:11-26
Solomon's Porch -- a Hallowed Spot for Peter	G. T. Stokes, D. D.	Acts 3:11-26
The Miracle At the Beautiful Gate as a Text	D. Thomas, D. D.	Acts 3:11-26
The Threefold Testimony of Peter Concerning Christ	Lisco.	Acts 3:11-26
The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Conversion of Men	R. W. Dale, LL. D.	Acts 3:11-26
Trite Courage	H. C. Trumbull, D. D.	Acts 3:11-26
Witness of Peter to Jesus	E. Johnson	Acts 3:11-26
Moses' Witness to the Christ	R. Tuck	Acts 3:22, 24
Reasons for Repentance	W. Hudson.	Acts 3:22-26
The Greatness of Jesus Christ	W. Clarkson	Acts 3:22-26
The Promised Prophet	R. M. Edgar, M. A.	Acts 3:22-26
The Prophet Like unto Moses	J. Orr, B. D.	Acts 3:22-26
The Resemblance Between Christ and Moses	W. Denton, M. A.	Acts 3:22-26

People

Isaac, Israelites, Jacob, John, Peter, Pilate, Samuel, Solomon

Places

Beautiful Gate, Nazareth, Solomon's Colonnade

Topics

Brethren, Brothers, Declared, Ear, Fathers, Hearken, Heed, Indeed, Listen, Prophet, Raise, Raised, Says, Speak, Tells, Truly, Whatever, Whatsoever

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Acts 3:22

     1170   God, unity of
     2366   Christ, prophecies concerning
     5103   Moses, significance
     5104   Moses, foreshadower of Christ
     7942   ministry

Acts 3:1-26

7469 temple, Herod's

Acts 3:11-26

7755 preaching, importance

Acts 3:19-26

8466 reformation

Acts 3:20-23

2318 Christ, as prophet

Acts 3:21-26

5467 promises, divine

Acts 3:22-23

5115 Peter, preacher and teacher
5165 listening

Acts 3:22-25

6708 predestination

Library

March 19 Morning
God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in the turning away every one of you from his iniquities.--ACTS 3:26. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercies hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.--Saved by his life. Our Saviour Jesus Christ . . . who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.--As …
Anonymous—Daily Light on the Daily Path

The Healing Power of the Name
'And His name through faith in His name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by Him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.' --ACTS iii. 16. Peter said, 'Why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?' eagerly disclaiming being anything else than a medium through which Another's power operated. Jesus Christ said, 'That ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins, …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts

The Servant of the Lord
'Unto you first God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him to bless you, In turning away every one of you from his iniquities.' --ACTS iii. 26. So ended Peter's bold address to the wondering crowd gathered in the Temple courts around him, with his companion John and the lame man whom they had healed. A glance at his words will show how extraordinarily outspoken and courageous they are. He charges home on his hearers the guilt of Christ's death, unfalteringly proclaims His Messiahship, bears witness …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts

'Then Shall the Lame Man Leap as an Hart'
'Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2. And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; 3. Who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked an alms. 4. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him, with John, said, Look on us. 5. And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts

'The Prince of Life'
'But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; 15. And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.' --ACTS iii. 14, 15. This early sermon of Peter's, to the people, is marked by a comparative absence of the highest view of Christ's person and work. It is open to us to take one of two explanations of that fact. We may either say that the Apostle was but learning the full significance of the marvellous events that …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts

Watching the Horizon
"Thy Kingdom Come." "Thou art coming! We are waiting With a hope that cannot fail; Asking not the day or hour, Resting on Thy word of power, Anchored safe within the veil. Time appointed may be long, But the vision must be sure: Certainty shall make us strong, Joyful patience must endure. "O the joy to see Thee reigning, Thee, my own beloved Lord! Every tongue Thy name confessing, Worship, honour, glory, blessing, Brought to Thee with glad accord! Thee, my Master and my Friend, Vindicated and enthroned! …
by S. D. Gordon—Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation

Upon Our Lord's SermonOn the Mount
Discourse 1 "And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: And when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: For they shall be comforted." Matt. 5:1-4. 1. Our Lord had now "gone about all Galilee," (Matt. 4:23, ) beginning at the time "when John was cast into prison," (Matt. 4:12, ) not only "teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel …
John Wesley—Sermons on Several Occasions

Apostolic Exhortation
It is noteworthy that Peter, in addressing this crowd, came at once to the very essence and bowels of his message. He did not beat the bush; he did not shoot his arrow far afield, but he hit the very centre of the target. He preached not merely the gospel of good news, but Christ, the person of Christ; Christ crucified--crucified by them, Christ risen, Christ glorified of his Father. Depend upon it, this is the very strength of the Christian ministry, when it is saturated with the name and person …
Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 14: 1868

Gladden -- the Prince of Life
Washington Gladden, Congregational divine, was born at Pottsgrove, Pa., in 1836. After graduating at Williams College he was ordained pastor, and occupied pulpits in Brooklyn, Morrisania, N.Y., and Springfield, Mass., until 1882, when he assumed charge of the First Congregational Church of Columbus, Ohio. He has also occupied editorial positions, and has published many books on social and civil reform and the practical application of Christian truth to popular and common life. His style, whether …
Grenville Kleiser—The world's great sermons, Volume 8

That the Christian Miracles are not Recited, or Appealed To, by Early Christian Writers Themselves So Fully or Frequently as Might have Been Expected.
I shall consider this objection, first, as it applies to the letters of the apostles preserved in the New Testament; and secondly, as it applies to the remaining writings of other early Christians. The epistles of the apostles are either hortatory or argumentative. So far as they were occupied in delivering lessons of duty, rules of public order, admonitions against certain prevailing corruptions, against vice, or any particular species of it, or in fortifying and encouraging the constancy of the …
William Paley—Evidences of Christianity

Thoughts Upon Worldly Riches. Sect. I.
HE that seriously considers the Constitution of the Christian Religion, observing the Excellency of its Doctrines, the Clearness of its Precepts, the Severity of its Threatnings, together with the Faithfulness of its Promises, and the Certainty of its Principles to trust to; such a one may justly be astonished, and admire what should be the reason that they who profess this not only the most excellent, but only true Religion in the World, should notwithstanding be generally as wicked, debauched and …
William Beveridge—Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life

Whether Christ's Resurrection Ought to have Been Manifested to All?
Objection 1: It would seem that Christ's Resurrection ought to have been manifested to all. For just as a public penalty is due for public sin, according to 1 Tim. 5:20: "Them that sin reprove before all," so is a public reward due for public merit. But, as Augustine says (Tract. civ in Joan.), "the glory of the Resurrection is the reward of the humility of the Passion." Therefore, since Christ's Passion was manifested to all while He suffered in public, it seems that the glory of the Resurrection …
Saint Thomas Aquinas—Summa Theologica

Whether Christ's Persecutors Knew who He Was?
Objection 1: It would seem that Christ's persecutors did know who He was. For it is written (Mat. 21:38) that the husbandmen seeing the son said within themselves: "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." On this Jerome remarks: "Our Lord proves most manifestly by these words that the rulers of the Jews crucified the Son of God, not from ignorance, but out of envy: for they understood that it was He to whom the Father says by the Prophet: 'Ask of Me, and I will give Thee the Gentiles for Thy inheritance.'" …
Saint Thomas Aquinas—Summa Theologica

Christ Rightly and Properly Said to have Merited Grace and Salvation for Us.
1. Christ not only the minister, but also the author and prince of salvation. Divine grace not obscured by this mode of expression. The merit of Christ not opposed to the mercy of God, but depends upon it. 2. The compatibility of the two proved by various passages of Scripture. 3. Christ by his obedience truly merited divine grace for us. 4. This grace obtained by the shedding of Christ's blood, and his obedience even unto death. 5. In this way he paid our ransom. 6. The presumptuous manner in which …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion

An Ox in the Congregation
Friday, July 10.--I rode to London and preached at Short's Gardens on "the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth" [Acts 3:6]. Sunday, 12. While I was showing, at Charles' Square, what it is "to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God" [see Micah 6:8], a great shout began. Many of the rabble had brought an ox, which they were vehemently laboring to drive among the people. But their labor was in vain; for in spite of them all, he ran round and round, one way and the other, and at length …
John Wesley—The Journal of John Wesley

Christ Teaching by Miracles
We have seen how many valuable lessons our Saviour taught while on earth by the parables which he used. But we teach by our lives, as well as by our lips. It has passed into a proverb, and we all admit the truth of it, that "Actions speak louder than words." If our words and our actions contradict each other, people will believe our actions sooner than our words. But when both agree together, then the effect is very great. This was true with our blessed Lord. There was an entire agreement between …
Richard Newton—The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young

The "Times of Restitution" Can be Ushered in Only by the Second Advent of Christ.
"Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the Times of Refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; And He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the Times of Restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began" (Acts 3:19-21). The "Times of Restitution" here promised to Israel on the condition of their national repentance is one of the names …
Arthur W. Pink—The Redeemer's Return

Christ and Pilate: the True King and his Counterfeit
'And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried Him away, and delivered Him to Pilate. 2. And Pilate asked Him, Art Thou the King of the Jews? And He answering said unto him, Thou sayest it. 3. And the chief priests accused Him of many things: but He answered nothing. 4. And Pilate asked Him again, saying, Answerest Thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against Thee. 6. But Jesus yet …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

The Essay which Brings up the Rear in this Very Guilty Volume is from The...
The Essay which brings up the rear in this very guilty volume is from the pen of the "Rev. Benjamin Jowett, M.A., [Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, and] Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford,"--"a gentleman whose high personal character and general respectability seem to give a weight to his words, which assuredly they do not carry of themselves [143] ." His performance is entitled "On the Interpretation of Scripture:" being, in reality, nothing else but a laborious denial of …
John William Burgon—Inspiration and Interpretation

Some Surprising Results of the Break.
The Surprised Jew: a clash of wills--thousands of believing Jews--the church displacing kingdom--two-fold division of men formerly--now three-fold--church different in organization from kingdom--the Baptist puzzled--Jesus did not fill out Hebrew prophecy--two characteristics, personal and official--personal details fulfilled--official not because of rejection--out of situation grew four gospels--Mark--Matthew's the gap gospel--Paul's audiences--Luke's gospel--these three tell of rejection mainly--John's …
S. D. Gordon—Quiet Talks about Jesus

Wilt Thou be Made Whole?
"Jesus saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool. Jesus saith unto him, Rise and walk. Immediately the man was made whole, and walked."--JOHN v. 6-9. "Peter said, In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.... The faith which is by Him hath given this man this perfect soundness in the presence of you all."--ACTS iii. 6, 16. "Peter said, AEneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise. And he arose immediately."--ACTS …
Andrew Murray—The Ministry of Intercession

The Disciple, -- Master, what is the Real Meaning of Service? is it that We...
The Disciple,--Master, what is the real meaning of service? Is it that we serve the Creator and then His creatures for His sake? Is the help of man, who is after all but a mere worm, of any value to God in caring for His great family, or does God stand in need of the help of man in protecting or preserving any of His creatures? The Master,--1. Service means the activity of the spiritual life and is the natural offering prompted by love. God, who is Love, is ever active in the care of His creation, …
Sadhu Sundar Singh—At The Master's Feet

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