<p>7:37 <em>This is the Moses who said to the children of Israel</em>- Implying 'Moses would have believed in Jesus as Messiah if he were here today'.</p><p><i>A prophet like me shall God raise up to you from among your brothers</i> - A clear statement of the Lord's humanity. As the Passover lamb had to be taken out from among the flock, so the Messiah was taken out from amongst His brothers. And Stephen has just stressed that Moses was a man (&quot;This man...&quot;, :36). Messiah was to like him. Yet there was an initial possible fulfilment of this prophecy in Aaron, whom Moses was told would be his prophet (Ex. 7:1), and who was literally one of Moses' brothers. Aaron could have been the Messiah figure, but failed. Again we are introduced to the idea of conditional prophecy; which was highly relevant to Israel at that time. If they accepted Jesus as Messiah, then prophecies would be fulfilled- but if they did not, then those prophecies would have another and more difficult for Israel outworking.</p>