SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:22
Porque Moiss dijo a los padres: El Seor vuestro Dios os levantar un profeta de vuestros hermanos, como yo; a l oiris haciendo conforme a todas las cosas que os hablare.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 3:22
Verse 22. Moses truly said unto the fathers] On this subject the reader is requested to refer to the note at Deut. xviii. 22. From this appeal to Moses it is evident that Peter wished them to understand that Jesus Christ was come, not as an ordinary prophet, to exhort to repentance and amendment, But as a legislator, who was to give them a new law, and whose commands and precepts they were to obey, on pain of endless destruction. Therefore they were to understand that the Gospel of Jesus Christ was that new law which should supersede the old.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 22. For Moses truly said unto the fathers , etc.] The Jewish fathers, the Israelites in the times of Moses. The Ethiopic version reads, our fathers. This phrase, unto the fathers, is left out in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions, and in the Alexandrian copy: the passages referred to are in ( Deuteronomy 18:15,19) a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you : which is not to be understood of a succession of prophets, as some of the Jewish writers f146 think; for the Jews never had a constant succession of prophets, and those they had, were not like to Moses: but of a single prophet, and so the Targums or Onkelos and Jonathan understood it; but not to be applied to Joshua, as some f147 , or to Jeremiah as others, or to David f149 ; but to the Messiah, and which is the Lord Jesus Christ, who answers to all the characters: he was a prophet in every sense, who brought a revelation of the divine will, taught the way, and explained the Scriptures of truth perfectly, and foretold things to come; he was raised up by the Lord God of Israel, and was anointed by his Spirit, and sent by him, and that to the people of the Jews, to the lost sheep of the house of Israel; he was the minister of the circumcision: of your brethren ; in the Hebrew text in ( Deuteronomy 18:15) it is also said, out of the midst of thee; but as these phrases are synonymous, the apostle here only retains one of them, which suggests that this prophet, the Messiah, should be of Jewish extract; as Jesus was, of the seed of David, and a son of Abraham: like unto me ; that is, to Moses, who is, the person speaking, between whom and Christ there is an agreement; the law was given by Moses, and the Gospel came by Christ; Moses was a mediator between God and the people of Israel, and Christ is the Mediator between God and men; Moses, under God, was an instrument of redeeming the people of Israel out of Egypt, and Christ, he is the Redeemer of his people from sin, Satan, and the law, and all their enemies: the Jews have a common saying, as was the first Redeemer, so shall be the last Redeemer; and they moreover observe f151 , that, as Israel was redeemed in the month Nisan, so they shall be redeemed in the month Nisan; in the future redemption by the Messiah: let the Jews abide by this; the Messiah Jesus suffered in the month Nisan, and obtained eternal redemption for his people: one of their writers has a notion, that when the Messiah comes, there will be the same disposition of the constellations, as when Moses brought the people out of Egypt, and gave them the law; and that the conjunction will be of Jupiter and Saturn, in the constellation Pisces: there was likewise between Moses and Christ, an agreement in the miracles they wrought, and in other things: him shall ye hear in all things, whatsoever he shall say unto you : all his doctrines are to be believed, embraced, and professed; and all his commands are to be obeyed, and all his ordinances submitted to; and this is hearing, or hearkening, to him in all things, delivered or enjoined by him.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-26 - Here is a powerful address to warn the Jews of the dreadfu consequences of their unbelief, in the very words of Moses, their favourite prophet, out of pretended zeal for whom they were ready to reject Christianity, and to try to destroy it. Christ came into the world to bring a blessing with him. And he sent his Spirit to be the great blessing. Christ came to bless us, by turning us from ou iniquities, and saving us from our sins. We, by nature cleave to sin the design of Divine grace is to turn us from it, that we may not onl forsake, but hate it. Let none think that they can be happy by continuing in sin, when God declares that the blessing is in being turned from all iniquity. Let none think that they understand of believe the gospel, who only seek deliverance from the punishment of sin, but do not expect happiness in being delivered from sin itself And let none expect to be turned from their sin, except by believin in, and receiving Christ the Son of God, as their wisdom righteousness, sanctification, and redemption __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
μωσης 3475 N-NSM μεν 3303 PRT γαρ 1063 CONJ προς 4314 PREP τους 3588 T-APM πατερας 3962 N-APM ειπεν 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3S οτι 3754 CONJ προφητην 4396 N-ASM υμιν 5213 P-2DP αναστησει 450 5692 V-FAI-3S κυριος 2962 N-NSM ο 3588 T-NSM θεος 2316 N-NSM υμων 5216 P-2GP εκ 1537 PREP των 3588 T-GPM αδελφων 80 N-GPM υμων 5216 P-2GP ως 5613 ADV εμε 1691 P-1AS αυτου 846 P-GSM ακουσεσθε 191 5695 V-FDI-2P κατα 2596 PREP παντα 3956 A-APN οσα 3745 K-APN αν 302 PRT λαληση 2980 5661 V-AAS-3S προς 4314 PREP υμας 5209 P-2AP
Robertson's NT Word Studies
3:22 {Like unto me} (hws eme). As me, literally; Moses (#De 18:14-18) claims that God raised him up as a prophet and that another and greater one will come, the Messiah. The Jews understood Moses to be a type of Christ (#Joh 1:21). God spoke to Moses face to face (#Ex 33:11) and he was the greatest of the prophets (#De 34:10).
