Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from your midst, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.” Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a prophet from among their […]
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 18 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Moses promised a prophet 'like me' who would speak all God commands; the Samaritan Taheb expectation rests here, matching the woman's 'when Messiah comes he will declare to us all things' (v25). High Coherence with Samaritan messianism and Jesus' 'I am he' (v26).
High confidence'Moses wrote about me... if you believed Moses you would believe me' centers on the Pentateuch as christological witness, with the prophet-like-Moses promise the prime text Jesus claims Moses 'wrote' concerning him. Volume: conceptual but specific — the expectation of a coming prophet whom Israel must heed. Coherence: very high; the chapter's climax makes Moses Jesus' chief scriptural witness and accuser. Recurrence: Deut 18 is the standard prophet-like-Moses proof-text in the NT (cf. Acts 3:22).
High confidenceThe promised prophet like Moses in whose mouth God puts his words — Jesus teaching 'with authority, not like the scribes' presents him as that authoritative prophetic voice, fitting Matthew's new-Moses framing of the Sermon.
Medium confidence