Messianic Prophecy

What the Old Testament said the Messiah would be, generations before Jesus was born.

Isa 53:3-6

3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

See also: John 1:11, John 1:10-11

4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

See also: 1 Peter 2:24, Matthew 8:17

5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

See also: 1 Peter 2:24, Epistle of Barnabas 5:1

6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

See also: 1 Clement 16:1, 1 Peter 2:25

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Psalm 22:16-18

16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

See also: John 20:25, Odes of Solomon 27:2

17I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

See also: Luke 23:35, Job 33:21

18They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

See also: John 19:24, Luke 23:34

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Micah 5:2

2But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

See also: Matthew 2:6, Psalms 23:1

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Zech 9:9

9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

See also: Matthew 21:5, Isaiah 62:11

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Luke 24:44-45

44And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

See also: Zechariah 12:10, Luke 24:26-27

45Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

See also: Acts 16:14, Ephesians 1:18

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