Acts 3:22 - Exposition

Moses indeed said for Moses truly said unto the fathers, A.V. and T.R.; the Lord God for the Lord your God, A.V. and T.R.; from among for of, A.V.; to him shall ye hearken for him shall ye hear, A V.; speak for say, A.V. Moses indeed said . Peter now verifies his assertion about the prophets in the previous verse by quoting from Moses, and referring to Samuel and those that came after. A prophet , etc. The quotation is from Deuteronomy 18:15-18 . That this was understood by the Jews to relate to some one great prophet who had not yet come, appears from the question "Art thou that prophet?" ( John 1:21 ), and from the saying of the Jews after the miracle of the loaves and fishes, "This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world" ( John 6:14 ; John 7:40 ). St. Peter here teaches that that prophet was none other than Christ himself, who was like unto Moses in the fullness of the revelation given unto him, in his being a Mediator between God and the people, in being the Author of a new law—the law of faith and love, in building a new tabernacle for God to inhabit, even the Church in which he will dwell for ever and ever (see Hebrews 1:1 , Hebrews 1:2 ).