Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
The prophets ... These were the prophets of the old covenant, the writers of the Old Testament, whose hundreds of prophecies of Christ's coming into the world make up the burden of the Old Testament.  For reasons that will appear below, critics have been very diligently at work on this Scripture. Selwyn argued that these are not the prophets of the Old Testament at all, but those of the apostolic church![29] However, the very fact of the prophets Peter mentioned having prophesied the sufferings and glories of Christ identifies them with the Old Testament, not the New Testament.