“Indeed, beginning with Samuel, all the prophets who have spoken have foretold these days.
Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel was among those who called on his name; they called on the Lord and he answered them.
Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go!
And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.
All this took about 450 years. “After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah,” he said.
that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.”
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,
Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.
But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.
But Samuel was ministering before the Lord—a boy wearing a linen ephod.
The boy Samuel ministered before the Lord under Eli. In those days the word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions.
And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the Lord.