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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
vv. 22-23 quote the promise of 'a prophet like me from among your brethren... you shall listen to him,' applied to Jesus as the eschatological prophet-like-Moses; the most explicit OT citation in the sermon.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them' presses the Deuteronomic demand to heed the words spoken in God's name, with refusal entailing accountability. Coherence with the obligation to 'hear' the authoritative Mosaic word is strong, framing the sufficiency-of-Scripture point.
Medium confidenceThe framing of John's baptism as 'from heaven' and the people's reckoning of John as a true prophet trades on the Deuteronomic test of the authentic prophet sent by God. Availability and coherence are good, but the link to John specifically is inferential and contested.
Low confidence