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Acts quotes the promise of a prophet like Moses from Deuteronomy and applies it to Jesus, similar to messianic traditions in Jewish writings such as the Dead Sea Scrolls. It also connects it to an anticipated prophetic and messianic figure.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
LXX Deuteronomy 18:18
Septuagint
16 according to all things which you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the Lord our God, and we will not any more see this great fire, and so we shall not die. 17 And the Lord said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they have said. 18 I will raise up to them a prophet of their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him. 19 And whatever man shall not listen to whatever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him. 20 But the prophet whoever shall impiously speak in my name a word which I have not commanded him to speak, and whoever shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
Date: 300–201 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
Acts 3:22
New Testament
20 so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and so that he may send the Messiah appointed for you—that is, Jesus. 21 This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets. 22 Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey him in everything he tells you. 23 Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.’ 24 And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.
Date: 70–90 CE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... It must be borne in mind that while the Qumran sectaries thought in terms of three eschatological figures and applied Deuteronomy 18:18-19 to the prophetic figure in 4Q Testimonia, the New Testament applied that same passage to Jesus (Acts 3:22-23). In addition to its application to the eschatological redeemer, the word 'mashiach' in the literature from Qumran could be variously understood as referring to the elect of Israel in a corporate sense (4Q Florilegium i; 19 interpreting Psalm 2:2), or to prophets (CD ii. 12:1, and 1 QM xi. 7-8) ..."
David E. Aune, A Note on Jesus' Messianic Consciousness and 11HQ Melchizedek (Evangelical Quarterly, 1973), 161–165.
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