CREDENTIALS OF MESSIAH Prophecy Fulfillment And I will put enmity between But when the fullness of the time had you and the woman and between come, God sent forth His Son, born your seed and her Seed; He shall of a woman, born under the law. bruise His heel. Galatians 4:4 Genesis 3:15 I will declare the decree: The And suddenly a voice came from LORD has said to Me, You are heaven, saying, This is My beloved My Son, today I have begotten Son, in whom I am well pleased. You. Matthew 3:17 Psalm 2:7 I see him, but not now; Jesus,...the son of Isaac, I behold Him, but not near; Jesus the son of Jacob. A Star shall come out of Jacob, Jesus the son of Judah. A Scepter shall rise out of Israel, Jesus the son of Jesse. And batter the brow of Moab, Luke 3:23-34 And destroy all the sons of tumult. Numbers 24:17 The Spirit if 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. Isaiah 11:2 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Matthew 3:16,17 Because zeal for Your house has When He had made a whip of cords, eaten me up, and the reproaches of He drove them all out of the temple those who reproach You have fallen And He said, Take these things away! on me. Do not make My Father s house a Psalm 69:9 house of merchandise! John 2:15,16
HIS MINISTRY Prophecy Then the eyes of the blind will be And Jesus was going about all the opened, And the ears of the deaf will cities and the villages, teaching in their be unstopped. Then the lame will leap synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel like a deer, And the tongue of the of the kingdom, and healing every kind dumb will sing For joy. of disease and every kind of sickness. Isaiah 35:5,6 Matthew 9:35 I will open my mouth in a parable; All these things Jesus spoke to the I will utter dark sayings of old. Multitude in parables; and without a Psalm 78:2 parable He did not speak to them. Matthew 13:34 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, humble, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey. Zechariah 9:9 And they brought him to Jesus. And They threw their own clothes on the colt, and they set Jesus on him. And as He went, many spread their clothes on the road. Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives. Luke 19:35-37 The Gentiles shall come to your For so the Lord has commanded us, I light, and kings to the brightness have set you as a light to the Gentiles, of your rising. That you should be for salvation to the Isaiah 60:3 ends of the earth. Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. Acts 13:47,48 HE IS RISEN For You will not leave my soul His soul was not left in Hades, nor in Sheol: nor will You allow Your did His flesh see corruption. Holy One to see corruption. Acts 2:31 Psalm 16:10
The LORD said to my Lord, Sit When He had by Himself purged at My right hand, till I make Your our sins, (He) sat down at the right enemies Your footstool. hand of the Majesty on high. Psalm 110:1 Hebrews 1:3 The following twenty-nine prophecies from the Old Testament, which speak of the betrayal, trial, defeat, and burial of our Lord Jesus Christ, were spoken by many over five centuries from 1000-500 B.C. Yet all of them were literally fulfilled in Jesus in one twenty-four-hour period of time. Even my familiar friend in whom Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. I trusted, who ate my bread, has Matthew 10:4 lifted up his heel against me. Psalm 41:9 Then I said to them, If it is What are you willing to give me if I agreeable to you, give me my deliver Him to you? And they counted wages; and if not, refrain. So out to him thirty pieces of silver. they weighed out for my wages Matthew 26:15 thirty pieces of silver. Zechariah 11:12 So I took the thirty pieces of silver Then he threw down the pieces of silver and threw them into the house of in the temple and departed. the LORD for the potter. Matthew 27:5 Zechariah 11:13 And they consulted together and bought with them the potter s field Matthew 27:7 Strike the Shepherd, and the Then they all forsook Him and fled. sheep will be scattered. Mark 14:50 Zachariah 13:7 Malicious witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I do not know. Psalm 35:11 Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council sought false testimony Against Jesus to put Him to death, but found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. Matthew 26:59, 60
He was oppressed and He was And while He was being accused by afflicted, Yet He opened not His the chief priests and elders, He mouth. Answered nothing. Isaiah 53:7 Matthew 27:12 But He was wounded for our Then he released Barabbas to them; transgressions, He was bruised and when he had scourged Jesus, he for our iniquities; the chastisement delivered Him to be crucified. for our peace was upon Him, and Matthew 27:26 by His stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 I gave My back to those who struck Then they spat in His face and beat Me, and My cheeks to those who Him; and others struck Him with the Plucked out the beard; I did not hide palms of their hands. My face from shame and spitting. Matthew 26:67 Isaiah 50:6 All who see Me ridicule Me; They When they had twisted a crown of shoot out the lip, they shake the thorns, they put it on His head, and a head, saying, He trusted in the Lord; reed in His right hand; and they bowed let Him rescue Him; let Him deliver the knee before Him and mocked Him, Him, since He delights in Him! saying, Hail, King of the Jews! Psalm 22:7,8 Matthew 27:29 My knees are weak through And He, bearing His cross, went out fasting; and my flesh is feeble to a place called the Place of a Skull, from lack of fatness. I also have which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha. become a reproach to them; when John 19:17 they look at me, they shake their heads. Now as they led Him away, they laid Psalm 109:24, 25 hold of a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, who was coming from the Country, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus. Luke 23:26 They pierced My hands and My feet. Psalm 22:16 And when they had come to the place Called Calvary, there they crucified Him. Luke 23:33
Because He poured out His soul Then the two robbers were crucified unto death, and He was numbered with Him, one on the right and another with the transgressors. on the left. Isaiah 53:12 Matthew 27:38 The type of death (by crucifixion) pictured in Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 did not come into practice under the Jewish system until hundreds of years after the account was prophecied. And He bore the sin of many, and Father, forgive them, for they do not made intercession for the trans- know what they do. gressors. Luke 23:34 Isaiah 53:12 He is despised and rejected by For even His brothers did not believe men, a Man of sorrows and in Him. Have any of the rulers or the acquainted with grief. And we hid, Pharisees believed in Him? as it were, our faces from Him; John 7:5, 48 He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Isaiah 53:3 Those who hate me without a But this happened that the word cause are more than the hairs of might be fulfilled which is written in my head. Their law, They hated Me without Psalm 69:4 a cause. John 15:25 My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my relatives stand afar off. Psalm 38:11 But all His acquaintances, and the women who followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things. Luke 23:49 I also have become a reproach to And those who passed by blasphemed them; When they look at me, they Him, wagging their heads. shake their heads. Matthew 27:39 Psalm 109:25 I can count all My bones. And the people stood looking on. They look and stare at Me. Luke 23:35 Psalm 22:17
They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots. Psalm 22:18 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. They said Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. John 19:23, 24 And for my thirst they gave me After this, Jesus said, I thirst! vinegar to drink. John 19:28 Psalm 69:21 They also gave me gall for my They gave Him sour wine mingled food, and for my thirst they gave with gall to drink. But when He had me vinegar to drink. Tasted it, He would not drink. Psalm 69:21 Matthew 27:34 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Psalm 22:1 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? Matthew 27:46 Into Your hand I commit my And when Jesus had cried out with a spirit. Loud voice, He said, Father, into Your Psalm 31:5 hands I commit My spirit. Luke 23:46 He guards all his bones; not one of them is broken. Psalm 34:20 But when they came to Jesus and saw That He was already dead, they did not break His legs. John 19.33 My heart is like wax; it has melted with Me. Psalm 22:14 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. John 19:34
They will look on Me whom But one of the soldiers pierced His side they pierced. With a spear. Zechariah 12:10 John 19:34 And it shall come to pass in that Now from the sixth hour until the ninth day, says the Lord God, That I will hour there was darkness over all the make the sun go down at noon, and land. I will darken the earth in broad Matthew 27:45 Daylight. Amos 8:9 And they made His grave with the wicked---but with the rich at His death. Isaiah 53:9 There came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph and (he) asked for the body of Jesus When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his new tomb. Matthew 27:57-60