Epiphany Season · Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany · Year B
Deuteronomy 18:15-20
The Prophet
January 31, 2027
Overview & Insights
“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you.” (Deuteronomy 18:15)
The prophet comes last in the listing of Israel’s different leadership roles. Almost certainly this is deliberate and significant, like the putting of the judge before the king. Maintaining justice was a higher priority than having a dynastic monarchy. Judge and king must both submit to the law of God, just as the priest must faithfully teach it. But what if those entrusted with such forms of leadership were themselves to go astray? Then the last word was God’s. And God would put that word in the mouth of God’s prophet.
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Commentary
Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Working Preacher
Luther Seminary on God's promise to raise up a prophet like Moses and the peril of the false prophet.
Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Center for Excellence in Preaching
A Reformed reading of how Israel receives the prophetic office as a gift so the people need not face the divine voice unmediated.
Deuteronomy 18 verse by verse Precept Austin
A study resource compiling word studies and cross-references across Deuteronomy 18.
Classic commentaries on Deuteronomy 18 BibleHub
Classic commentators from Matthew Henry to the Pulpit Commentary, verse by verse.
Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Enduring Word · David Guzik
An accessible verse-by-verse commentary, widely used across evangelical churches.
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Questions preachers ask
Who is the prophet like Moses?
Moses promises that God will raise up a prophet from among the people to whom they must listen; the New Testament reads this as fulfilled in Christ, the prophet greater than Moses.
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