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Deuteronomy 18:18

The New Testament’s use of Deuteronomy

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

John 1:43-51

Philip's 'him of whom Moses in the law... wrote' (v.45) identifies Jesus as the prophet-like-Moses, the figure promised in Moses' words. Secure availability and high coherence with the messianic-fulfillment claim that frames the disciple-gathering.

High confidence
John 3:31-36

'He whom God has sent speaks the words of God' (3:34) echoes the promised prophet-like-Moses in whose mouth God puts his words. Coherent with John's sent-one-speaks-God's-words theme; moderate verbal contact.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

John 14:8-11 ?

God promises a prophet 'in whose mouth I will put my words... he shall speak all that I command him,' the pattern Jesus claims in 14:10: 'the words I speak are not from myself; the Father does his works.' The prophet-like-Moses speech-formula gives modest Coherence with John's sent-one Christology; low because John does not cite the prophet text here.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Deuteronomy 18
Deuteronomy 18:10-11 2Deuteronomy 18:10-12 2Deuteronomy 18:13 3Deuteronomy 18:15-18 3Deuteronomy 18:15 14Deuteronomy 18:15-19 3Deuteronomy 18:18-19 2Deuteronomy 18:20-22 2