Prophecies Respecting Christ

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• Luke 2:4-6 NT

  Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David; to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as…

• Psalms 72:10 OT

  The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

• Matthew 2:1-11 NT

  Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”…

• Jeremiah 31:15 OT

  Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

• Matthew 2:16-18 NT

  Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the…

• Hosea 11:1 OT

  “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

• Matthew 2:15 NT

  and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

• Isaiah 40:3 OT

  The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

• Malachi 3:1 OT

  “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; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Matthew 3:1 NT

  In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

• Matthew 3:3 NT

  For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

• Luke 1:17 NT

  He will 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 prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

• Psalms 45:7 OT

  You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

• Isaiah 11:2 OT

  Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

• Isaiah 61:1 OT

  The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

• Matthew 3:16 NT

  Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

• John 3:34 NT

  For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

• Acts 10:38 NT

  even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

• Deuteronomy 18:15-18 OT

  Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear…

• Acts 3:20-22 NT

  and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets. For Moses indeed said to the fathers,…

• Psalms 110:4 OT

  Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

• Hebrews 5:5 NT

  So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”

• Hebrews 5:6 NT

  As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”

• Isaiah 61:2 OT

  to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,