‘This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, “A prophet shall God raise up to you from among your brethren, like to me.” '

Stephen then makes clear the parallel between Moses and Jesus by citing Deuteronomy 18:15 (compare Acts 3:22). All that he has been saying has had in mind not only Moses, but the coming Prophet like Moses. Many of them believed in the coming Prophet (see John 1:21), and were even looking for his coming. Let them therefore draw the parallels. The coming of the Prophet like Moses is also mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Samaritans as well looked forward to a restored Moses. It was a common expectation.

Furthermore this could be seen as an indication that when such a Prophet who was ‘like Moses' came, different aspects of the Law would be expanded as He took up the Law of Moses and applied it.

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