VI.
Prophetic Confirmation.
A.
The Jewish
Authorities, and the people, anticipated the Messiah from prophecies in
the
Hebrew Scriptures.
Responding
to the prophecy given in Micah 5:2, Wise Men from the East came to Jerusalem
to worship the promised Messiah.
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Matthew 2:1-2
1 Now after Jesus was born in
Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from
the East came to Jerusalem, 2saying, “Where is He who has
been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and
have come to worship Him.”
Matthew 2:3-6
3When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and
all Jerusalem with him.
4And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of
the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be
born.
5So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus
it is written by the prophet:
6”But you,
Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
Are not the least among the
rulers of Judah;
For out of you shall come a
Ruler
Who will shepherd My people
Israel.”
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Micah 5:2
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out
of you shall come forth to Me The One to be
Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting.”
Commentary by Glenn Miller:
http://www.christian-thinktank.com/micah5.html
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Luke
2:25-26
25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem
whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for
the
Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26And
it
had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death
before
he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
Luke 2:36-38
36 Now there was one, Anna, a
prophetess, the
daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and
had
lived with a husband seven years from her virginity; 37and
this
woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, [NU-Text
reads a widow until she was eighty-four]
who did not depart from the temple, but served God with
fastings and prayers night and day. 38And coming in that
instant she
gave thanks to the Lord, [NU-Text reads to
God] and spoke of Him
to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
Luke 3:15
Now as the people were
in expectation, and all reasoned
in their hearts about John,
whether he was the Christ or
not,
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John 1:19-21
19 Now this is the testimony of
John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem
to ask him, “Who are you?”
20He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am
not the Christ.”
21And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”
He said, “I am not.”
“Are you the Prophet?”
And he answered, “No.”
John 3:28
You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, “I am
not the Christ,’
but, “I have been sent before Him.’
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Isaiah 40:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare
the way of the LORD; Make
straight in the desert [Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate;
Septuagint omits in the desert ] A highway
for our God.
1 In those days John the Baptist
came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
2and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”
3For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:
“The voice of one crying in
the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the
LORD;
Make His paths straight.”‘ [Isaiah 40:3]
4Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a
leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
5Then Jerusalem, all
Judea, and all the region around the Jordan
went out to him 6and were baptized by him in the Jordan,
confessing their sins.
7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees
coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned
you to flee from the wrath to come? 8Therefore bear fruits
worthy of repentance, 9and do not think to say to
yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God
is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. 10And
even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree
which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
11I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is
coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to
carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. [M-Text omits and fire] 12His winnowing fan is in His hand, and
He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat
into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
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See
also Mark 1:1-8; Luke 3:1-20.
John
7:40-43
40 Therefore many [NU-Text
reads some] from the crowd, when they
heard
this saying, said, “Truly this is the Prophet.” 41Others
said, “This
is the Christ.”
But some said, “Will the Christ come out of Galilee?
42Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed
of David
and from the town of Bethlehem,
where David was?” 43So there was a division among the people
because
of Him.
John 10:24
Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him,
“How long do You keep us in
doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
B.
Jesus confirmed prophecies concerning Himself.
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Matthew 11:3-5
3and said to Him, “Are You the
Coming One, or do we look for another?”
4Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John
the things which you hear and see: 5The blind see and the
lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are
raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
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Isaiah 35:4-6
4Say to those who are fearful-hearted,
“Be strong, do not fear!
Behold, your God will come
with vengeance,
With the recompense of God;
He will come and save you.”
5Then the eyes of
the blind shall be opened,
And the ears of the deaf
shall be unstopped.
6Then the lame
shall leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the dumb
sing.
For waters shall burst forth
in the wilderness,
And streams in the desert.
Isaiah 29:17-19
17 Is it not yet a very little
while
Till Lebanon
shall be turned into a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field be
esteemed as a forest?
18In that day the
deaf shall hear the words of the book,
And the eyes of the blind
shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
19The humble also
shall increase their joy in the LORD,
And the poor among men shall
rejoice
In the Holy One of Israel.
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Matthew
11:10
For this is he of whom it is written: “Behold, I send My messenger
before Your face, Who will prepare Your way
before You.’[Malachi 3:1]
Mark 1:2
As it is written in the Prophets: “Behold, I send
My messenger before
Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.”
Luke
7:27
This is he of whom it is written: “Behold, I send My messenger
before Your face, Who will prepare Your way
before You.’ [Malachi 3:1]
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Malachi 3:1
“Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare
the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the
covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” Says the LORD of hosts.
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Matthew 22:42-45
42saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose
Son is He?”
They said to Him, “The Son of David.”
43He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit
call Him “Lord,’ saying:
44”The LORD said
to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies
Your footstool”‘?
45If David then calls Him “Lord,’ how is He his Son?”
Acts 2:33-35
33Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God,
and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He
poured out this which you now see and hear.
34”For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he
says himself:
“The LORD said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
35Till I make
Your enemies Your footstool.”
Hebrews 1:13
But to which of the angels has He ever said: “Sit
at My right
hand, Till I make Your enemies Your
footstool”?
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Psalm
110:1
The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at My
right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
2
Samuel 7:14
I will be his
Father, and he shall
be My son.
If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with
the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of
men.
1
Chronicles 22:10
He shall build a house for My
name, and he shall be My son, and I will
be his Father; and I will establish
the throne of his kingdom over Israel
forever.’
Psalm 2:4-6
4He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The LORD shall hold them in
derision.
5Then He shall
speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His
deep displeasure:
6”Yet I have set
My King
On My holy hill of Zion.”
Psalm
68:6
God sets the solitary in families; He
brings out those who are
bound into prosperity; But the rebellious
dwell in a dry land.
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Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but
woe to that man by
whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”
Mark 14:21
The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but
woe to that man by
whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had never been born.”
Luke 22:22
And truly the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but
woe to that man by
whom He is betrayed!”
John 13:18
“I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but
that the Scripture may be fulfilled, “He who eats bread
with Me [NU-Text reads My bread] has lifted up his heel
against Me.’
[Psalm 41:9]
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Psalm 41:9
Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted
up his heel against me.
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Matthew 26:31
Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be
made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: “I will strike the Shepherd,
And the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
[Zechariah 13:7]
Mark 14:27
Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be
made to stumble because of Me this night, [NU-Text omits [because
of Me this night] for it is written: “I will
strike the Shepherd,
And the sheep will be scattered.’ [NU-Text omits
because of Me this night]
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Zechariah 13:7
“Awake, O sword, against My
Shepherd, Against the Man
who is My Companion,” Says the LORD of hosts. “Strike the
Shepherd, And the sheep will be scattered; Then I will turn My hand against the little ones.
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Matthew 15:8
“These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And [NU-Text omits draw near to Me
with their mouth, And] honor Me with their
lips, But their heart is far
from Me.
Mark 7:5-7
5Then the Pharisees and scribes
asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition
of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”
6He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah
prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:
“This people honors Me with
their lips,
But their heart is far from
Me.
7And in vain they
worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the
commandments of men.
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Isaiah 29:13
Therefore the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their
mouths And honor Me with their lips, But have
removed their hearts far from Me, And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment
of men,
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Mark 9:13
But I say to you that Elijah has also come, and
they did to him whatever they wished, as it is written
of him.”
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Malachi 4:4-6
4”Remember the Law of Moses, My
servant,
Which I commanded him in
Horeb for all Israel,
With the statutes and
judgments.
5Behold, I will
send you Elijah the prophet
Before the coming of the
great and dreadful day of the LORD.
6And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to
the children,
And the hearts of the
children to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike the
earth with a curse.”
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Matthew 21:42
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “The stone
which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORD’s doing, And it
is marvelous in our eyes’?
Mark 12:10
Have you not even read this Scripture: “The stone which the builders
rejected Has become the chief
cornerstone.
Luke 20:17
Then He looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written:
“The stone which the builders rejected Has become
the chief cornerstone’? [Psalm 118:22]
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Psalm 118:21-23
21I will praise You,
For You have answered me,
And have become my
salvation.
22The stone which
the builders rejected
Has become the chief
cornerstone.
23This was the
LORD’s doing;
It is marvelous in our eyes.
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Mark 14:43-49
43 And immediately, while He was still
speaking,
Judas, one of the twelve, with a great multitude with swords and clubs,
came
from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. 44Now
His
betrayer had given them a signal, saying, “Whomever I kiss, He is the
One;
seize Him and lead Him away safely.”
45As soon as he had come, immediately he went up to Him and
said to
Him, “Rabbi, Rabbi!” and kissed Him.
46Then they laid their hands on Him and took Him. 47And
one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the
high
priest, and cut off his ear.
48Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Have you come out,
as
against a robber, with swords and clubs to take Me? 49I
was daily
with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.”
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Luke 1:16-18
16And he will turn many of the
children of Israel
to the Lord their God. 17He will also go before Him in the
spirit and power of Elijah, “to turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready
a people prepared for the Lord.”
18And Zacharias said to the angel, “How shall I know
this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”
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Malachi 4:4-6
4”Remember the Law of Moses, My
servant,
Which I commanded him in
Horeb for all Israel,
With the statutes and
judgments.
5Behold, I will
send you Elijah the prophet
Before the coming of the
great and dreadful day of the LORD.
6And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to
the children,
And the hearts of the
children to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike the
earth with a curse.”
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16 So He came to Nazareth,
where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17And He
was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the
book, He found the place where it was written:
18”The Spirit of
the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the
poor;
He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted, [NU-Text omits to heal the brokenhearted]
To proclaim liberty to the
captives
And recovery of sight to the
blind,
To set at liberty those who
are oppressed;
19To proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD.” [Isaiah 61:1, 2]
20Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the
attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue
were fixed on Him. 21And He began to say to them, “Today
this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
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1 “The Spirit of the
Lord GOD is upon Me,
Because the LORD has
anointed Me
To preach good tidings to
the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the
captives,
And the opening of the
prison to those who are bound;
2To proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD,
And the day of vengeance of
our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
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Mark 15:28
So the Scripture was
fulfilled [Isaiah 53:12] which says, “And He was numbered with
the transgressors.”
[NU-Text omits this verse]
Luke 22:37
For I say to you that this which is written must
still be accomplished in Me: “And He was numbered with
the transgressors.’[Isaiah 53:12] For the things concerning Me have an
end.”
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Isaiah 53:12
Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He
was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of
many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
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Luke 24:27
And beginning at Moses and all the
Prophets, He expounded to them in
all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Luke
24:32
And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while
He talked
with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
Luke
24:44
Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I
was
still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in
the Law
of Moses and the Prophets and
the Psalms concerning Me.”
Luke 24:45
And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.
John 2:20-22
20Then the Jews said, “It has taken
forty-six
years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
21But He was speaking of the temple of His body. 22Therefore,
when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had
said this
to them; [NU-Text and M-Text omit to them]
and they believed the Scripture
and the word which Jesus had said.
John 5:45-47
45Do not think that I shall accuse you
to the
Father; there is one who accuses you--Moses, in whom you trust. 46For
if you believed Moses, you would
believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47But
if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
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John 6:31
Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it
is written, “He gave them bread from heaven to
eat.” [Exodus 16:4; Nehemiah 9:15;
Psalm 78:24]
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Exodus
16:4
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from
heaven for you. And
the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I
may test them, whether they will walk in My law
or not.
Exodus 16:15
So when the children of Israel
saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know
what it was. And Moses said to them, “This is the
bread which the LORD has given
you to eat.
Psalm
78:24
Had rained down manna on them to eat, And given them of the bread of heaven.
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John 13:18
“I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but
that the Scripture may be fulfilled, “He who eats bread with Me
[NU-Text reads My bread]has lifted up his heel against
Me.’ [Psalm 41:9]
John 17:12
While I was with them in the world, [NU-Text omits in the
world] I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have
kept; [ NU-Text reads in Your name which You gave Me. And
I guarded them; ] (or [it;] )] and none of them is lost except the
son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
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Psalm
41:9
Even my own familiar friend in whom
I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his
heel against me.
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Matthew 27:35
Then they crucified Him, and divided His garments, casting
lots, [NU-Text and M-Text omit the rest of this verse]
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by
the prophet: “They divided My
garments among them, And for My clothing they cast
lots.” [NU-Text and M-Text omit the rest of this verse]
John
19:24
They said therefore among themselves, “Let us not tear it, but cast
lots for it, whose it shall be,” that the Scripture might be
fulfilled which says: “They divided My garments among them, And for My
clothing they cast lots.” [Psalm 22:18] Therefore the
soldiers did these things.
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Psalm 22:18
They divide My
garments among them, And for My clothing they cast
lots.
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John 19:28
After this, Jesus, knowing [M-Text reads seeing] that
all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be
fulfilled, said, “I thirst!”
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Psalm
69:21
They also gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they
gave me vinegar to drink.
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Hebrews 10:5-8
5 Therefore, when He came into
the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering You
did not desire,
But a body You have prepared
for Me.
6In burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin
You had no pleasure.
7Then I said,
“Behold, I have come--
In the volume of the book it
is written of Me--
To do Your will, O God.”‘
8Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt
offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure
in them” (which are offered according to the law),
Romans 10:16
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "LORD, who
has believed our report?"
Jesus Christ fulfilled Isaiah 53 in
that He
Was despised and rejected (v. 3,
also Psalm 118:22)
Was a man of
sorrows (v. 3)
Carried our sorrows (v. 4)
Was smitten and afflicted (v. 4)
Was pierced for our transgressions (v. 5)
Was bruised
(v.5)
Suffered as a
lamb (v. 7)
Died with the wicked (v. 9)
Was sinless (v. 9)
Prayed for
his transgressors (v. 12)
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Psalm 40:6-8
6Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;
My ears You have opened.
Burnt offering and sin
offering You did not require.
7Then I said,
“Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it
is written of me.
8I delight to do
Your will, O my God,
And Your law is within my
heart.”
1 Who has believed our
report?
And to whom has the arm of
the LORD been revealed?
2For He shall
grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry
ground.
He has no form or
comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we
should desire Him.
3He is despised
and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our
faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did
not esteem Him.
4Surely He has
borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him
stricken,
Smitten by God, and
afflicted.
5But He was
wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our
iniquities;
The chastisement for our
peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are
healed.
6All we like
sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one,
to his own way;
And the LORD has laid on Him
the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed
and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the
slaughter,
And as a sheep before its
shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8He was taken
from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His
generation?
For He was cut off from the
land of the living;
For the transgressions of My
people He was stricken.
9And they [Literally he or He]
made His grave with the wicked--
But with the rich at His
death,
Because He had done no
violence,
Nor was any deceit in His
mouth.
10Yet it pleased
the LORD to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an
offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He
shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the LORD
shall prosper in His hand.
11He shall see
the labor of His soul, [Following
Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Dead
Sea Scrolls and Septuagint read From
the labor of His soul He shall see light]
and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My
righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their
iniquities.
12Therefore I
will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the
spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His
soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the
transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for
the transgressors.
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See also
“Messiah Revealed:
Index of all
Prophecies by Category,”
http://www.messiahrevealed.org/category-index.html
C. Matthew
confirmed prophecies concerning Jesus.
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Matthew 1:1-17
1 The book of the genealogy of
Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:
2Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob
begot Judah and his brothers. 3Judah begot Perez and Zerah
by Tamar, Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram. 4Ram
begot Amminadab, Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon.
5Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot
Jesse, 6and Jesse begot David the king.
David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.
7Solomon begot Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot
Asa. [NU-Text reads Asaph] 8Asa
begot Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah.
9Uzziah begot Jotham, Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah.
10Hezekiah begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon, [NU-Text
reads Amos].
and Amon begot Josiah. 11Josiah
begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were carried away
to Babylon.
12And after they were brought to Babylon,
Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel. 13Zerubbabel
begot Abiud, Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor. 14Azor
begot Zadok, Zadok begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud. 15Eliud
begot Eleazar, Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob. 16And
Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is
called Christ.
17So all the generations from Abraham to David are
fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon
are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon
until the Christ are fourteen generations.
Acts 7:2-5
2And he said, “Brethren and fathers, listen: The God
of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia,
before he dwelt in Haran, 3and said to him, “Get out of your
country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show
you.’ 4Then he came out of the
land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran.
And from there, when his father was dead, He moved him to this land in
which you now dwell. 5And God gave him no inheritance in it,
not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child,
He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants
after him.
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Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity Between you
and the woman, And between
your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise
His heel.”
Genesis 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said to Abram:
“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s
house,
To a land that I will show
you.
2I will make you
a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3I will bless
those who bless you,
And I will curse him who
curses you;
And in you all the families
of the earth shall be blessed.”
Genesis 22:18
In your seed all the nations of the earth shall
be blessed, because you have obeyed
My voice.”
Genesis 26:4
And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I
will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the
nations of the earth shall be blessed;
Genesis 49:10
The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And
to Him shall be the obedience of the people.
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be his Father, and he shall
be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will
chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons
of men.
Ruth 4:18-22
18Now this is the genealogy of Perez: Perez begot
Hezron; 19Hezron begot Ram, and Ram begot Amminadab; 20Amminadab
begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon; [Hebrew Salmah] 21Salmon begot Boaz, and Boaz begot
Obed; 22Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.
1 Chronicles 2:1-2
1 These were the sons of Israel:
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah,
Issachar, Zebulun, 2Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad,
and Asher.
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From Judah to David
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3 The sons of Judah
were Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by the daughter
of Shua, the Canaanitess. Er, the firstborn of Judah,
was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so He killed him. 4And
Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah
were five.
5The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 6The
sons of Zerah were Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara--five of them
in all.
7The son of Carmi was Achar, [Spelled Achan in Joshua 7:1 and
elsewhere] the troubler of Israel,
who transgressed in the accursed thing.
8The son of Ethan was Azariah.
9Also the sons of Hezron who were born to him were
Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai. [Spelled Caleb
in 2:18, 42] 10Ram begot Amminadab, and
Amminadab begot Nahshon, leader of the children of Judah; 11Nahshon
begot Salma [Spelled Salmon in
Ruth 4:21 and Luke 3:32], and Salma begot Boaz; 12Boaz
begot Obed, and Obed begot Jesse; 13Jesse begot Eliab his
firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea [Spelled Shammah in 1 Samuel 16:9
and elsewhere] the third, 14Nethanel the fourth, Raddai
the fifth, 15Ozem the sixth, and David the seventh.
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23 the sons of Leah were Reuben,
Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah,
Issachar, and Zebulun; 24the sons of Rachel were Joseph and
Benjamin; 25the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maidservant, were
Dan and Naphtali; 26and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s
maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were
born to him in Padan Aram.
Genesis 46:8-25
8Now these were the names of the children of Israel,
Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt:
Reuben was Jacob’s firstborn. 9The sons of Reuben were
Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 10The sons of Simeon were
Jemuel [Spelled Nemuel in 1
Chronicles 4:24],
Jamin, Ohad, Jachin [Called Jarib in 1 Chronicles 4:24], Zohar, [Called Zerah in
1 Chronicles 4:24] and
Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. 11The sons of Levi were
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12The sons of Judah
were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land
of Canaan). The sons of
Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13The sons of Issachar were
Tola, Puvah, [Spelled Puah in 1 Chronicles 7:1] Job [Same as Jashub in Numbers 26:24
and 1 Chronicles 7:1] and Shimron. 14The sons of Zebulun
were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 15These were the sons of
Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram,
with his daughter Dinah. All the persons, his sons and his daughters,
were thirty-three.
16The sons of Gad were Ziphion [Spelled Zephon in Samaritan
Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Numbers 26:15], Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon [Called Ozni in Numbers 26:16
Spelled Arod in Numbers 26:17], Eri, Arodi, and
Areli. 17The sons of Asher were Jimnah, Ishuah [Called Hupham in Numbers 26:39],
Isui, Beriah, and Serah, their sister. And the sons of Beriah were
Heber and Malchiel. 18These were the sons of Zilpah, whom
Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob: sixteen
persons.
19The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife, were Joseph and
Benjamin. 20And to Joseph in the land
of Egypt were born Manasseh
and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On,
bore to him. 21The sons of Benjamin were Belah, Becher,
Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi,
Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, [Called Hupham in Numbers 26:39] and Ard.
22These were the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: fourteen
persons in all.
23The son of Dan was Hushim. [Called Shuham in Numbers 26:42]
24The sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel [Spelled Jahziel in 1
Chronicles 7:13],
Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. [Spelled Shallum
in 1 Chronicles 7:13] 25These were the sons of
Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to
Jacob: seven persons in all.
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See
Ruth 4:18-22; Matthew 1:2-6; Luke 3:31-33
The Genealogy of Christ through Mary
Luke 3:23-38
23 Now Jesus Himself began His ministry
at about
thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, the son
of
Heli, 24the son of Matthat, This and several
other names in
the genealogy are spelled somewhat differently in the NU-Text. Since
the New
King James Version uses the Old Testament spelling for persons
mentioned in the
New Testament, these variations, which come from the Greek, have not
been
footnoted.
the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of
Janna, the
son of Joseph, 25the son of Mattathiah, the son of Amos, the
son of
Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, 26the son of
Maath, the
son of Mattathiah, the son of Semei, the son of Joseph, the son of
Judah,
27the son of Joannas, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel,
the son of
Shealtiel, the son of Neri, 28the son of Melchi, the son of
Addi,
the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er, 29the
son of
Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son
of
Levi, 30the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of
Joseph, the
son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, 31the son of Melea, the
son of
Menan, the son of Mattathah, the son of Nathan, the son of David,
32the
son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the
son of
Nahshon, 33the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of
Hezron,
the son of Perez, the son of Judah, 34the son of Jacob, the
son of
Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, 35the
son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the
son of
Shelah, 36the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of
Shem,
the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, 37the son of Methuselah,
the son
of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,
38the
son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
Cf. Luke 2:1-7
1 And it came to pass in those days
that a decree
went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
2This
census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria.
3So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.
4Joseph also went up from Galilee,
out of the
city of Nazareth, into Judea,
to the city of David,
which is
called Bethlehem, because
he was of
the house and lineage of David, 5to be registered with Mary,
his
betrothed wife, [NU-Text omits wife] who was with child. 6So
it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to
be
delivered. 7And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and
wrapped Him
in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no
room for
them in the inn.
Genealogy of Christ through Joseph.
Matthew
1:1-17
1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus
Christ, the
Son of David, the Son of Abraham:
2Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot
Judah and
his brothers. 3Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez
begot
Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram. 4Ram begot Amminadab,
Amminadab begot
Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon. 5Salmon begot Boaz by
Rahab, Boaz
begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, 6and Jesse begot David
the
king.
David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.
7Solomon
begot Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa. [NU-Text
reads Asaph]. 8Asa
begot
Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah. 9Uzziah
begot Jotham, Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah. 10Hezekiah
begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon, [NU-Text reads Amos] and Amon begot Josiah.
11Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were
carried
away to Babylon.
12And after they were brought to Babylon,
Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel. 13Zerubbabel
begot Abiud, Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor. 14Azor
begot Zadok, Zadok begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud. 15Eliud
begot
Eleazar, Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob. 16And
Jacob
begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called
Christ.
17So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen
generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon
are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon
until the Christ are fourteen generations.
Cf. Matthew 1:18-23
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as
follows:
After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came
together, she
was found with child of the Holy Spirit. 19Then Joseph her
husband,
being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was
minded to
put her away secretly. 20But while he thought about these
things,
behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
“Joseph, son
of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that
which is
conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21And she will bring
forth a
Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people
from their
sins.”
22So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken
by the Lord through the prophet, saying: 23”Behold, the
virgin
shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name
Immanuel,” [Literally
God-With-Us] which is translated, “God with us.”
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin
shall
conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
[Literally God-With-Us]
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be his Father, and he shall
be My son.
If he commits iniquity, I will
chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
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Matthew 2:1-6
1 Now after Jesus was born in
Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from
the East came to Jerusalem, 2saying, “Where is He who has
been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and
have come to worship Him.”
3When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and
all Jerusalem with him.
4And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of
the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be
born.
5So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus
it is written by the prophet:
6”But you,
Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
Are not the least among the
rulers of Judah;
For out of you shall come a
Ruler
Who will shepherd My people
Israel.”‘ [Micah 5:2]
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Micah 5:2
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you
shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings
forth are from of old, From everlasting.”
Commentary by J.P. Holding:
On the
"Bethlehem" prophecy [Off Site] – also an on-site reply to Fiddler Zvi.
Commentary by Glenn Miller:
http://www.christian-thinktank.com/micah5.html
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Matthew 3:1-3
1 In those days John the Baptist
came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
2and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”
3For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:
“The voice of
one crying in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the
LORD;
Make His paths straight.”‘
Mark 1:3
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight.” [Isaiah 40:3]
Luke
3:4
as it is written in the book of the words of
Isaiah the prophet, saying: “The voice of one crying
in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight.
John 1:23
He said: “I am “The voice of one crying in
the wilderness: “Make straight the way of
the LORD,”‘ [Isaiah 40:3] as the prophet Isaiah said.”
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Isaiah 40:3
The voice of one
crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the LORD; Make
straight in the desert [Following
Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Septuagint
omits in the desert] A highway
for our God.
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See
also Mark 1:2-8; Luke 3:1-20.
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Matthew 11:10
For this is he of whom it is written: “Behold, I send My
messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way
before You.’ [Malachi 3:1]
Mark 1:2
As it is written in the Prophets: [NU-Text reads Isaiah
the prophet] “Behold, I send My messenger
before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.” [NU-Text reads
Isaiah the prophet]
Luke
7:27
This is he of whom it is written: “Behold, I send My
messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way
before You.’ [Malachi 3:1]
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Malachi 3:1
“Behold, I send My messenger, And he
will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will
suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the
covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” Says the
LORD of hosts.
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Matthew 3:16-18
16When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately
from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He [Or he] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and
alighting upon Him. 17And suddenly a voice came from heaven,
saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Matthew
17:5
While he was still speaking, behold, a bright
cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came
out of the cloud, saying, “This is My
beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased. Hear Him!”
2
Peter 1:17
For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My
beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased.”
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Isaiah 11:1-3
1 There shall come forth a Rod
from the stem of Jesse,
And a Branch shall grow out
of his roots.
2The Spirit of
the LORD shall rest upon Him,
The Spirit of wisdom and
understanding,
The Spirit of counsel and
might,
The Spirit of knowledge and
of the fear of the LORD.
3His delight is
in the fear of the LORD,
And He shall not judge by
the sight of His eyes,
Nor decide by the hearing of
His ears;
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Matthew 9:35
Then Jesus went about all the cities
and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the
gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease
among the people. [NU-Text omits among the people]
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Isaiah 35:5-6
5Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
And the ears of the deaf
shall be unstopped.
6Then the lame
shall leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the dumb
sing.
For waters shall burst forth
in the wilderness,
And streams in the desert.
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Matthew 21:12-14
12 Then Jesus went into the temple
of God [NU-Text omits of
God] and drove out all those who bought and
sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and
the seats of those who sold doves. 13And He said to them,
“It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ [Isaiah 56:7] but you have made it a “den of
thieves.” [Jeremiah 7:11]
Mark
11:17
Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, “My house
shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? [Isaiah
56:7] But you have made it a “den of thieves.”‘ [Jeremiah 7:11]
Luke 19:46
saying to them, “It is written, “My house is [NU-Text reads shall
be] a house of prayer,’ [Isaiah 56:7] but you have made it a “den
of thieves.”‘ [Jeremiah
7:11] ]
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Isaiah
56:7
Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And
make them joyful in My house
of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their
sacrifices Will be accepted on My
altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all
nations.”
Jeremiah
7:11
Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your
eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the LORD.
Malachi 3:1
“Behold, I send My
messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the
Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” Says the LORD of hosts.
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See
also Mark 11:15-19; Luke 19:45-48; John 2:13-22.
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Matthew 21:42
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
“The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief
cornerstone. This was the LORD’s doing, And it is marvelous in our
eyes’? [Psalm 118:22, 23]
Mark
12:10
Have you not even read this Scripture: “The stone which the builders
rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.
Luke
20:17
Then He looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written:
“The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief
cornerstone’? [Psalm 118:22]
Acts
4:11
This is the “stone which was rejected by you builders, which has
become the chief cornerstone.’ [Psalm
118:22]
1
Peter 2:7
Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are
disobedient,[NU-Text reads to those who disbelieve]
“The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone,” [NU-Text reads to those who disbelieve]
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Psalm 118:21-23
21I will praise You,
For You have answered me,
And have become my
salvation.
22The stone which
the builders rejected
Has become the chief
cornerstone.
23This was the
LORD’s doing;
It is marvelous in our eyes.
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Matthew 26:54-56
54How then could the Scriptures
be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?”
55In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you
come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to take Me? I sat
daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you did not seize Me.
56But all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might
be fulfilled.”
Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.
Mark 14:48-50
48Then Jesus answered and said to
them, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to
take Me? 49I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and
you did not seize Me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.”
50Then they all forsook Him and fled.
Luke 22:52-54
52Then Jesus said to the chief
priests, captains of the temple, and the elders who had come to Him,
“Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs? 53When
I was with you daily in the temple, you did not try to seize Me. But
this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
54 Having arrested Him, they led Him and brought Him
into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed at a distance.
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Psalm 22:11
Be not far from Me,
For trouble is near; For there is none to help.
Psalm 69:20
Reproach has broken my heart, And I am full of heaviness; I looked for
someone to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of
sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid,
as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem
Him.
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D. Mark confirmed
prophecies concerning Jesus.
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Mark 1:1-3
1 The beginning of the gospel of
Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 2As it is written in the
Prophets:
“Behold, I send My messenger
before Your face,
Who will prepare Your way
before You.”
3”The voice of
one crying in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the
LORD;
Make His paths straight.”‘
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Malachi 3:1
“Behold, I send My messenger,
And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek,
Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger
of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He
is coming,” Says the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 40:3
The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in
the desert [Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and
Vulgate; Septuagint omits in the desert] A highway for our God.
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Mark
12:10
Have you not even read this Scripture: “The stone which the
builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.
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Psalm 118:21-23
21I will praise You,
For You have answered me,
And have become my
salvation.
22The stone which
the builders rejected
Has become the chief
cornerstone.
23This was the
LORD’s doing;
It is marvelous in our eyes.
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Mark 14:50
Then they all forsook Him
and fled.
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Psalm 22:11
Be not far from Me,
For trouble is near; For there is none to help.
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Mark 14:33-41
33And He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He
began to be troubled and deeply distressed. 34Then He said
to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here
and watch.”
35He went a little farther, and fell on the ground,
and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass from Him.
36And He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You.
Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You
will.”
37Then He came and found them sleeping, and said to
Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour? 38Watch
and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak.”
39Again He went away and prayed, and spoke the same
words. 40And when He returned, He found them asleep again,
for their eyes were heavy; and they did not know what to answer Him.
41Then He came the third time and said to them, “Are
you still sleeping and resting? It is enough! The hour has come;
behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.
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Psalm 69:20
Reproach has broken my heart, And I am full of heaviness; I looked for
someone to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
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Mark
15:28
So the Scripture was fulfilled [Isaiah 53:12] which says, “And
He was numbered with the transgressors.” [NU-Text omits this verse]
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Isaiah 53:12
Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the
great, And He shall divide the spoil with the
strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered
with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of
many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
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Matthew
27:46
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying,
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My
God, why have You forsaken
Me?” [Psalm 22:1]
Mark
15:34
And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi,
Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My
God, why have You forsaken
Me?” [Psalm 22:1]
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Psalm 22:1
[title Hebrew [Aijeleth Hashahar] ] My God, My God,
why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping
Me, And from the words of My
groaning?
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E. Luke
confirmed
prophecies concerning Jesus.
Luke
2:1-7
1 And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out
from
Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2This
census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria.
3So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.
4Joseph also went up from Galilee,
out of the
city of Nazareth, into Judea,
to the city of David,
which is
called Bethlehem, because
he was of
the house and lineage of David, 5to be registered with Mary,
his
betrothed wife, [NU-Text omits wife] who
was with child. 6So it was, that while they
were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. 7And
she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling
cloths, and
laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
See
also Matthew 1:18-25.
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Luke
2:21
And when eight days were completed
for the circumcision of the Child, [NU-Text reads for
His circumcision] His name was called
JESUS, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in
the womb.
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Matthew 1:18-25
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ
was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before
they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. 19Then
Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a
public example, was minded to put her away secretly. 20But
while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord
appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be
afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in
her is of the Holy Spirit. 21And she will bring forth a Son,
and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from
their sins.”
22So all this was done that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: 23”Behold,
the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His
name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
24Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the
angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife, 25and
did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son. And he
called His name JESUS.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your
seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
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The Genealogy of Jesus Christ.
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Luke 3: 23-38
23 Now Jesus Himself began His
ministry at about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son
of Joseph, the son of Heli, 24the son of Matthat, the son of
Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janna, the son of Joseph, 25the
son of Mattathiah, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli,
the son of Naggai, 26the son of Maath, the son of
Mattathiah, the son of Semei, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah,
27the son of Joannas, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel,
the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, 28the son of Melchi,
the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er,
29the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son
of Matthat, the son of Levi, 30the son of Simeon, the son of
Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, 31the
son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattathah, the son of
Nathan, the son of David, 32the son of Jesse, the son of
Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, 33the
son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez,
the son of Judah, 34the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the
son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, 35the
son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the
son of Shelah, 36the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the
son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, 37the son
of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of
Mahalalel, the son of Cainan, 38the son of Enosh, the son of
Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
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Genesis 49:10
The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall
be the obedience of the people.
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Luke 4:17-20
17And He was handed the book of
the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place
where it was written:
18”The Spirit of
the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the
poor;
He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted, [NU-Text omits to heal the brokenhearted]
To proclaim liberty to the
captives
And recovery of sight to the
blind,
To set at liberty those who
are oppressed;
19To proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD.” [Isaiah
61:1, 2]
20Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the
attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue
were fixed on Him.
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Isaiah 61:1-2
1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is
upon Me,
Because the LORD has
anointed Me
To preach good tidings to
the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the
captives,
And the opening of the
prison to those who are bound;
2To proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD,
And the day of vengeance of
our God;
To comfort all who mourn,
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Luke 20:17
Then He looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written:
“The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief
cornerstone’? [Psalm 118:22]
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Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a
foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a
sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.
Psalm 118:21-23
21I will praise You,
For You have answered me,
And have become my
salvation.
22The stone which
the builders rejected
Has become the chief
cornerstone.
23This was the
LORD’s doing;
It is marvelous in our eyes.
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Luke 22-23
The Lord’s Supper
Arrest of Jesus
Trial of Jesus
Crucifixion of Jesus
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Isaiah 53
2For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry
ground.
He has no form or
comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we
should desire Him.
3He is despised
and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our
faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did
not esteem Him.
4Surely He has
borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him
stricken,
Smitten by God, and
afflicted.
5But He was
wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our
iniquities;
The chastisement for our
peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are
healed.
6All we like
sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one,
to his own way;
And the LORD has laid on Him
the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed
and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the
slaughter,
And as a sheep before its
shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8He was taken
from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His
generation?
For He was cut off from the
land of the living;
For the transgressions of My
people He was stricken.
9And they [Literally he or He] made His grave with the wicked--
But with the rich at His
death,
Because He had done no
violence,
Nor was any deceit in His
mouth.
10Yet it pleased
the LORD to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an
offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He
shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the LORD
shall prosper in His hand.
11He shall see
the labor of His soul, [Following
Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint
read From the labor of His soul He shall see light].
and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My
righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their
iniquities.
12Therefore I
will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the
spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His
soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the
transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for
the transgressors.
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Luke 23:33
And when they had come to the place called Calvary,
there they crucified Him, and the
criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left.
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Psalm
22:16
For dogs have surrounded Me; The
congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced
[Following some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate;
Masoretic Text reads Like a lion] My hands and My
feet;
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Acts
4:11
This is the “stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become
the chief cornerstone.’ [Psalm 118:22]
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Psalm 118:21-23
21I will praise You,
For You have answered me,
And have become my
salvation.
22The stone which
the builders rejected
Has become the chief
cornerstone.
23This was the
LORD’s doing;
It is marvelous in our eyes.
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F. John
confirmed prophecies concerning Jesus.
John 1:6-8
6 There was a man sent from God, whose
name was
John. 7This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the
Light,
that all through him might believe. 8He was not that Light,
but was
sent to bear witness of that Light.
John 2:17
Then His disciples remembered that it
was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten
[NU-Text and M-Text read
will eat] Me up.” [Psalm 69:9]
John 2:22
Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered
that He had
said this to them; [NU-Text and M-Text omit to
them] and they believed the Scripture and the word which
Jesus had
said.
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John 12:12-15
12 The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard
that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried
out:
“Hosanna!
“Blessed is He who comes in
the name of the LORD!’ [Psalm 118:26]
The King of Israel!”
14Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on
it; as it is written:
15”Fear not,
daughter of Zion;
Behold, your King is coming,
Sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
[Zechariah 9:9]
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Psalm 118:26
Blessed is he who comes in
the name of the
LORD! We have blessed you from the
house of the LORD.
Zechariah 9:9
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is
coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a
donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.
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John 12:36-38
36While you have the light,
believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” These things
Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.
37 But although He had done so many signs before them,
they did not believe in Him, 38that the word of Isaiah the
prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:
“Lord, who has believed our
report?
And to whom has the arm of
the LORD been revealed?”
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Isaiah 53:1
Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
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The
Crucifixion, with details, in fulfillment of prophecy.
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John 19:23-24
23Then the soldiers, when they
had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, to each
soldier a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam,
woven from the top in one piece. 24They said therefore among
themselves, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall
be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says:
“They divided My garments
among them,
And for My clothing they
cast lots.” [Psalm 22:18]
Therefore the soldiers did these things.
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Psalm 22:18
They divide My garments among them,
And for My clothing they cast lots.
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John 19:34
But one of the soldiers pierced His side
with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
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Zechariah 12:10
“And I will pour on the
house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem
the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look
on Me whom
they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one
grieves for a firstborn.
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John 19:36
For these things were done that the Scripture should be
fulfilled, “Not one of His bones shall be broken.”[Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12; Psalm 34:20]
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Exodus
12:46
In one house it shall be
eaten; you shall not
carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break
one of its bones.
Numbers 9:12
They shall leave none of it until
morning, nor break one of its
bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.
Psalm 34:20
He guards all his bones;
Not one of them is broken.
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John
19:37
And again another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom
they pierced.” [Zechariah 12:10]
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Zechariah 12:10
“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem
the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom
they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one
mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves
for a firstborn.
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John 20:9
For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise
again from
the dead.
G. Philip confirmed
prophecies about
Jesus.
John 1:45
Philip found Nathanael and said to him,
“We have found Him of whom
Moses in the law, and also the prophets,
wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
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Acts 8:26-35
26 Now an angel of the Lord spoke
to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which
goes down from Jerusalem
to Gaza.” This is desert.
27So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch
of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had
charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship,
28was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading
Isaiah the prophet. 29Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go
near and overtake this chariot.”
30So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the
prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
31And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?”
And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. 32The place
in the Scripture which he read was this:
“He was led as a sheep to
the slaughter;
And as a lamb before its
shearer is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
33In His
humiliation His justice was taken away,
And who will declare His
generation?
For His life is taken from
the earth.” [Isaiah 53:7, 8]
34So the eunuch answered Philip
and said, “I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or
of some other man?” 35Then Philip opened his mouth, and
beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.
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Isaiah 53:7-8
7He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the
slaughter,
And as a sheep before its
shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8He was taken
from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His
generation?
For He was cut off from the
land of the living;
For the transgressions of My
people He was stricken.
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H. Apollos
confirmed prophecies concerning Jesus.
Acts
18:24
Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria,
an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.
Acts
18:28
for he vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures
that Jesus is the Christ.
I. Paul confirmed
prophecies
concerning Jesus.
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Acts 13:33
God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up
Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: “You
are My Son, Today I have begotten You.’ [Psalm 2:7]
Acts 2:27
For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One
to see corruption.
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Psalm 2:7
“I will declare the decree: The LORD has said to Me, “You are My
Son, Today I have begotten You.
Psalm 16:10
For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your
Holy One to see corruption.
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Acts 13:34-36
34And that He raised Him from the dead, no
more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus:
“I will give you
the sure mercies of David.’ [Isaiah 55:3]
35Therefore He also says in another Psalm:
“You will not
allow Your Holy One to see corruption.’ [Psalm 16:10]
36”For David, after he had served his own generation
by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw
corruption;
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Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I
will make an everlasting covenant with you-- The sure mercies of David.
Psalm 16:10
For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your
Holy One to see corruption.
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Acts 17:2-4
2Then Paul, as his custom was, went in
to them,
and for three Sabbaths reasoned with
them from the Scriptures, 3explaining and demonstrating
that the
Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This
Jesus whom
I preach to you is the Christ.” 4And some of them were
persuaded;
and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the
leading women,
joined Paul and Silas.
Romans 1:1-3
1 Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ,
called to
be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God 2which He
promised
before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, 3concerning
His
Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according
to the
flesh,
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Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it
was accounted to him for righteousness.” [Genesis 15:6]
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Genesis 15:6
And he believed in the
LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
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Romans 9:33
As it is written:
“Behold, I lay in Zion a
stumbling stone and rock of offense, And whoever believes on Him will
not be put to shame.” [Isaiah 8:14;
28:16]
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Isaiah 8:14
He will be as a sanctuary, But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense To both the
houses of Israel,
As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a
foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a
sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.
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Romans 10:11
For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on
Him will not be put to shame.” [Isaiah 28:16]
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Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a
foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a
sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.
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Romans
11:8
Just as it is written:
“God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that
they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very
day.” [Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10]
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Deuteronomy 29:4
Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear,
to this very day.
Isaiah 29:10
For the LORD has poured out on you The spirit of
deep sleep, And has closed
your eyes, namely, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, namely, the seers.
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Romans 11:26
And so all Israel
will be saved, [Or delivered ] as it
is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
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Isaiah 59:20
“The Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression
in Jacob,” Says the LORD.
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Romans
14:11
For it is written: “As I
live, says the LORD, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall
confess to God.” [Isaiah 45:23]
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Isaiah 45:23
I have sworn by Myself; The word has gone out of My mouth in
righteousness, And shall not return, That to Me every
knee shall bow, Every tongue shall take an oath.
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Romans 15:3
For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it
is written, “The reproaches of those who
reproached You fell on Me.”[Psalm 69:9]
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Psalm 69:9
Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of
those who reproach You have fallen
on me.
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Romans 15:8-10
8Now I say that Jesus Christ has
become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm
the promises made to the fathers, 9and that the Gentiles
might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written:
“For this reason I will
confess to You among the Gentiles,
And sing to Your name.”
10And again he says:
“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with
His people!”
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2 Samuel 22:50
Therefore I will give thanks to You,
O LORD, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your
name.
Psalm 18:49
Therefore I will give thanks to You,
O LORD, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your
name.
Deuteronomy
32:43
“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; [A Dead Sea Scroll fragment
adds And let all the gods [(angels) worship Him] (compare Septuagint and Hebrews 1:6)] For He will avenge
the blood of His servants, And render
vengeance to His adversaries; He
will provide atonement for His
land and His people.”
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Romans 15:21
but as it is written: “To
whom He was not announced, they shall see; And those who have not heard
shall understand.”[Isaiah 52:15]
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Isaiah 52:15
So shall He sprinkle [Or startle]
many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths at
Him; For what had not been told
them they shall see, And what
they had not heard they shall
consider.
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1
Corinthians 1:19
For it is written: “I
will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the
understanding of the prudent.” [Isaiah 29:14]
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Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work Among this people, A marvelous
work and a wonder;
For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, And the understanding of
their prudent men shall be hidden.”
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1 Corinthians 1:30-32
30But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for
us wisdom from God--and righteousness and sanctification and
redemption-- 31that, as it is written, “He
who glories, let him glory in the LORD.”
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Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD,
exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and
righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD.
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1 Corinthians 15:3
For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures,
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Isaiah 53
5But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our
iniquities;
The chastisement for our
peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are
healed.
6All we like
sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one,
to his own way;
And the LORD has laid on Him
the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed
and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the
slaughter,
And as a sheep before its
shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8He was taken
from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His
generation?
For He was cut off from the
land of the living;
For the transgressions of My
people He was stricken.
9And they
[Literally he or He] made His grave with the wicked--
But with the rich at His
death,
Because He had done no
violence,
Nor was any deceit in His
mouth.
10Yet it pleased
the LORD to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an
offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He
shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the LORD
shall prosper in His hand.
11He shall see
the labor of His soul, [Following
Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Dead
Sea Scrolls and Septuagint read From
the labor of His soul He shall see light]
and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My
righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their
iniquities.
12Therefore I
will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the
spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His
soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the
transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for
the transgressors.
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1 Corinthians 15:2-4
2by which also you are saved, if
you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in
vain.
3For I delivered to you first of all that which I also
received: that Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures, 4and that He was buried, and
that He rose again the third day according to the
Scriptures,
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Psalm 16:8-10
8I have set the LORD always before me;
Because He is at my right
hand I shall not be moved.
9Therefore my
heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will rest in
hope.
10For You will
not leave my soul in Sheol,
Nor will You allow Your Holy
One to see corruption.
Hosea 6:2
2After two days He will revive us;
On the third day He will
raise us up,
That we may live in His
sight.
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Galatians 3:8
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the
Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying,
“In you all the nations shall be blessed.” [Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14]
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Genesis 18:18
since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty
nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed
in him?
Genesis 22:18
In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
because you have obeyed My voice.”
Genesis 26:4
And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I
will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the
nations of the earth shall be blessed;
Genesis 28:14
Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the
earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the
north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of
the earth shall be blessed.
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Galatians 3:13
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse
for us (for it is written,
“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree” [Deuteronomy 21:23] ),
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Deuteronomy 21:23
his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you
shall surely bury him that day, so that you do
not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you
as an inheritance;
for he who is hanged is accursed of God.
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Galatians
3:16
Now to Abraham and his Seed were
the promises made. He
does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as
of one, “And to your Seed,” [Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 24:7] who is Christ.
Acts 7:2-5
2And he said, “Brethren and fathers, listen: The God
of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia,
before he dwelt in Haran, 3and said to him, “Get out of your
country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show
you.’ [Genesis 12:1] 4Then he
came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran.
And from there, when his father was dead, He moved him to this land in
which you now dwell. 5And God gave him no inheritance in it,
not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child,
He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants
after him.
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Genesis 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said to Abram:
“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s
house,
To a land that I will show
you.
2I will make you
a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3I will bless
those who bless you,
And I will curse him who
curses you;
And in you all the families
of the earth shall be blessed.”
Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your
descendants I will give this land.”
And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:15
for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants
[Literally seed,] and so throughout
the book] forever.
Genesis 22:16-18
16and said: “By Myself I have
sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not
withheld your son, your only son-- 17blessing I will bless
you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of
the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your
descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18In
your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you
have obeyed My voice.”
Genesis 24:7
The LORD God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the
land of my family, and who spoke to me and
swore to me, saying, “To your descendants
[Literally seed] I give
this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a
wife for my son from there.
Genesis
28:4
And give you the blessing of Abraham, To you and your descendants with
you, That you may inherit the land In which you are a stranger, Which
God gave to Abraham.”
Genesis
28:13
And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: “I am the LORD God of
Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I
will give to you and your descendants.
Genesis
28:14
Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall
spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and
in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis
32:12
For You said, “I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants
as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.”‘
Genesis
35:12
The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your
descendants after you I give this land.”
Genesis
48:4
and said to me, “Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and
I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your
descendants after you as an everlasting possession.’
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Galatians 3:21-23
21Is the law then against the promises
of God?
Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given
life,
truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22But the
Scripture
has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ
might be
given to those who believe. 23But before faith came, we were
kept
under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be
revealed.
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Galatians 4:4-6
4But when the fullness of the
time had come, God sent forth His Son, born [Or made] of a woman, born under the law, 5to
redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption
as sons.
6And because you are sons, God has sent forth the
Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
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Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your
head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
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Ephesians 4:8
Therefore He says: “When He ascended
on high, He led captivity captive, And
gave gifts to men.”[Psalm 68:18]
Matthew 22:44
“The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your
enemies Your footstool”‘? [Psalm 110:1]
Mark 12:36
For David himself said by the Holy Spirit: “The LORD said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies
Your footstool.”‘ [Psalm 110:1]
Luke 20:43
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”‘
[Psalm 110:1]
Acts 2:34-36
34”For David did not ascend into
the heavens, but he says himself:
“The LORD said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
35Till I make
Your enemies Your footstool.”‘
36”Therefore let all the house of Israel
know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both
Lord and Christ.”
Hebrews 1:13
But to which of the angels has He ever said: “Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”?
[Psalm 110:1]
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Psalm
68:18
You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive; You have received
gifts among men, Even from the rebellious,
That the LORD God might dwell there.
Psalm
110:1
The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit at My right
hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
Psalm 2:4-6
4He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The LORD shall hold them in
derision.
5Then He shall
speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His
deep displeasure:
6”Yet I have set
My King
On My holy hill of Zion.”
Psalm
68:6
God sets the solitary in families; He
brings out those who are
bound into prosperity; But the rebellious
dwell in a dry land.
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J. Paul
confirmed
prophecies of the Holy Spirit.
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1
Corinthians 14:21
In the law it is written: “With men of other
tongues and other lips I will speak to this people; And yet, for all
that, they will not hear Me,” [Isaiah 28:11, 12] says the Lord.
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Isaiah 28:12
To whom He said, “This is the rest with which You may cause
the weary to rest,” And,
“This is the refreshing”; Yet they would not hear.
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K. Writer
of
Hebrews confirmed prophecies of Jesus.
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Hebrews
1:5
For to which of the angels did He ever say: “You are My Son, Today
I have begotten You”? [Psalm 2:7] And again: “I
will be to Him a Father, And He shall be to Me a Son”? [Psalm 2:7]
Hebrews 5:5
So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it
was He who said to Him: “You are My Son, Today I have
begotten You.” [Psalm 2:7]
Acts 13:33
God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up
Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: “You are My
Son, Today I have begotten You.’ [Psalm
2:7]
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Psalm 2:7
“I will declare the decree: The LORD has said to Me, “You are My
Son, Today I have begotten You.
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Hebrews
7:14
For it is evident that our Lord arose from
Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
[NU-Text reads priests]
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Genesis 49:10
The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall
be the obedience of the people.
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L. Peter confirmed
prophecies concerning Jesus.
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Acts 1:15-17
15 And in those days Peter stood
up in the midst of the disciples [NU-Text reads brethren] (altogether the number of names was about a hundred
and twenty), and said, 16”Men and brethren, this Scripture
had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of
David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus;
17for he was numbered with us and obtained a part in this
ministry.”
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Psalm 109:8
Let his days be few, And let another
take his office.
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Acts 1:20
“For it is written in the
Book of Psalms: “Let his dwelling place be desolate, And let no one
live in it’; [Psalm 69:25] and,
“Let [Psalm 69:25] another take his office.’ [Psalm 109:8]
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Psalm
69:25
Let their dwelling place be desolate; Let no one live
in their tents.
Psalm 109:8
Let his days be few,
And let another take his office.
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Acts 2:30-31
30Therefore, being
a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of
the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the
Christ to sit on his throne, [ NU-Text omits according to the
flesh, He would raise up the Christ and completes the verse with He
would seat one on his throne] 31he, foreseeing
this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul
was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.
Acts
13:35
Therefore He also says in another Psalm: “You
will not allow Your Holy One to see
corruption.’ [Psalm 16:10]
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Psalm 2:7
“I will declare the decree: The LORD has said to
Me, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.
Psalm
16:10
For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor
will You allow Your Holy One
to see corruption.
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Acts 2:34-45
34”For David did not ascend into
the heavens, but he says himself:
“The LORD said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
35Till I make
Your enemies Your footstool.”‘ [Psalm 110:1]
36”Therefore let all the house of Israel know
assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord
and Christ.”
37Now when they heard this, they were cut to the
heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and
brethren, what shall we do?”
38Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one
of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of
sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39For
the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar
off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”
40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted
them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” 41Then
those who gladly [NU-Text omits gladly]
received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand
souls were added to them. 42And they continued steadfastly
in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and
in prayers. 43Then fear came upon every soul, and many
wonders and signs were done through the apostles. 44Now all
who believed were together, and had all things in common, 45and
sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone
had need.
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Psalm
110:1
The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit
at My right
hand, Till I make Your enemies Your
footstool.”
Psalm 2:4-6
4He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The LORD shall hold them in
derision.
5Then He shall
speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His
deep displeasure:
6”Yet I have set
My King
On My holy hill of Zion.”
Psalm 68:6
God sets the solitary in families; He
brings out those who are
bound into prosperity; But the rebellious
dwell in a dry land.
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1 Peter 2:6
Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, “Behold, I lay
in Zion A chief
cornerstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no
means be put to shame.”[2:6 Isaiah 28:16]
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Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a
foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a
sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.
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M. James
confirmed prophecies concerning Jesus.
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Acts 15:15-17
15And with this the words of the
prophets agree, just as it is written:
16’After this I
will return
And will rebuild the
tabernacle of David, which has fallen down;
I will rebuild its ruins,
And I will set it up;
17 So that the
rest of mankind may seek the LORD.
Even all the Gentiles who are
called by My name,
Says the LORD who does all
these things.’
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Amos 9:10-12
10All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
Who say, “The calamity shall
not overtake nor confront us.’
11 “On that day I will raise up
The tabernacle [Literally booth, figure of a
deposed dynasty]of David, which has fallen down,
And repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the
days of old;
12That they may
possess the remnant of Edom, [Septuagint
reads mankind]
And all the Gentiles who are
called by My name,”
Says the LORD who does this
thing.
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N. Other
eyewitness accounts concerning Jesus and prophecy.
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John 7:42
Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of
David and from the town of Bethlehem,
where David was?”
Commentary by J.P. Holding:
On the
"Bethlehem" prophecy [Off Site] -- also have an on-site reply to Fiddler Zvi
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Micah 5:2
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are
little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you
shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings
forth are from of old, From everlasting.”
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See also the following:
“Messiah Revealed:
Index of all
Prophecies by Category,”
http://www.messiahrevealed.org/category-index.html
“Deuteronomy 18:
A Prophet Like Unto
Moses,”
http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/11-04/prophet.htm
“Isaiah 7:14:
Does Almah Mean Young
Woman or
Virgin?”
http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/9_1/almah -- see also here
“The Promised Child,”
http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/09-01/promisedchild
Response to “The
Fabulous
Prophecies of the Messiah,” Part II, The Isaiah
7:14
Passage,
http://www.christian-thinktank.com/fabprof2.html
“Isaiah 52:13-53:12
The Rabbis’ Dilemma: A
Look at
Isaiah 53,”
http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/2_5/isaiah53
Jewish Messianic
Interpretations of
Isaiah 53 (chart)
http://www.jewsforjesus.org/answers/prophecy/isaiah53chart -- see also “What the Prophet Said, What the Rabbis Said” here ; Efraim Goldstein. “Who's the Subject of Isaiah 53? You Decide!” here; “Is there any place in the Hebrew Scriptures or Jewish tradition for the idea that someone can die for the sins of another person?” here
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