Jesus, the Christ: Prophet: God Will Severely Punish Those Who Reject Him

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’

…how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.

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.

This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

The crowds replied, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Although they wanted to arrest Him, they were afraid of the crowds, because the people regarded Him as a prophet.

A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”

When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”

Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

“What things?” He asked. “The events involving Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “This man was a prophet, powerful in speech and action before God and all the people.

He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”

“Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.

When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

On hearing these words, some of the people said, “This is truly the Prophet.”

So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.