Deuteronomy 18:15 promises that God will raise up for Israel a prophet like Moses from among their own people, and commands the people to listen to him. In its immediate context, Moses is assuring Israel that after his departure God will continue to provide His word through divinely appointed prophets rather than through the divination and occult practices of the surrounding nations. At the same time, the language creates an expectation of a prophet who would stand in a distinctive relationship to Moses.

John 6:14 records the crowd's reaction after Jesus fed the five thousand: they concluded that He was truly "the Prophet" who was to come into the world. This language reflects the expectation associated with Deuteronomy 18. The New Testament makes the identification still more explicit in Acts 3:22, where Peter quotes Moses' promise while preaching about Jesus. Christian interpretation therefore sees Jesus as the climactic Prophet like Moses: raised up by God from among Israel, speaking with divine authority, performing mighty works, and mediating God's revelation to His people.