“And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:”
'This is the same Moses who told the Israelites: 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.' - Stephen quotes Deuteronomy 18:15, one of the most important messianic prophecies in the Old Testament. Moses predicts a future prophet like himself (hos me, like me). Stephen is preparing his audience to understand Jesus as the fulfillment of this prophecy, the prophet like Moses. The irony deepens: Israel rejected Moses; will they also reject the prophet like Moses?
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