but this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

So because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,

But the things which God previously announced by the mouths of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has fulfilled in this way.

whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things, about which God spoke by the mouths of His holy prophets from ancient times.

Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your countrymen; to Him you shall listen regarding everything He says to you.

And it shall be that every soul that does not listen to that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’

And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken from Samuel and his successors onward, have also announced these days.

It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your countrymen.’

But God turned away and gave them over to serve the heavenly lights; as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘You did not offer Me victims and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?

However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands; as the prophet says:

Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, and you have now become betrayers and murderers of Him;

and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading Isaiah the prophet.

Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

The eunuch answered Philip and said, “Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself, or of someone else?”

All the prophets testify of Him, that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins.”

Now at this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

First Missionary Journey

Now there were prophets and teachers at Antioch, in the church that was there: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue officials sent word to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it.”

After these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

For those who live in Jerusalem, and their rulers, recognizing neither Him nor the declarations of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning Him.

Therefore, see that the thing spoken of in the Prophets does not come upon you:

The words of the Prophets agree with this, just as it is written:

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers and sisters with a lengthy message.