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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Acts 7:37 → Deuteronomy 18:15

Quotation

Later text

Acts 7:37BSB

This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 18:15BSB

The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 18:18BSB

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

Significance

"This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers'" (Acts 7:37; Deuteronomy 18:15). Stephen places on Moses' own lips the promise that seals his argument: the greatest of Israel's deliverers pointed beyond himself to a coming Prophet whom the people must heed. This is one of Scripture's genuine, NT-affirmed types — Moses the covenant-mediator prefiguring Christ, all five marks of valid typology holding (Peter names Jesus this Prophet at Acts 3:22-23; Stephen names him here). To reject the Prophet like Moses is to reject God's final word, for "God... has spoken to us by His Son" (Hebrews 1:1-2). Stephen's hearers, who honored Moses, stand convicted by Moses himself: the One they murdered is the Prophet Moses foretold, and to hear him is life.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Typology

▸ A Prophet Like Moses

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Moses (The Prophet Like unto Me) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Deuteronomy 18:15-19 — A Prophet Like Moses

Acts 7:37 → Deuteronomy 18:15

Significance

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