Acts 3:23
21 Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.
22 For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’
24 Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.
25 And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’
- KJV
- And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
- WEB
- It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
- ASV
- And it shall be, that every soul that shall not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.
- DARBY
- And it shall be that whatsoever soul shall not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.
- BLB
- And it will come to pass [that] every soul who might not heed that prophet will be utterly destroyed out of the people.’
- ÅB
- og det skal skje: Hver sjel som ikke hører denne profet, skal utryddes av folket.
- OTB
- Enhver som ikke lytter til den profeten, skal bli fullstendig utryddet fra folket.'
- B1930
- og det skal skje: Hver sjel som ikke hører denne profet, skal utryddes av folket.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 18:19
And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.
Read in contextJohn 12:48
There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Read in contextHebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Read in contextHebrews 10:28–30
Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Read in contextRevelation 20:15
And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Read in contextHebrews 12:25
See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?
Read in contextJohn 8:24
That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
Read in context2 Thessalonians 1:7–9
and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels
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