Messianic Prophecy
What the Old Testament said the Messiah would be, generations before Jesus was born.
Isa 53:3-6
Read in full chapter →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
Psalm 22:16-18
Read in full chapter →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
Micah 5:2
Read in full chapter →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
Zech 9:9
Read in full chapter →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
Luke 24:44-45
Read in full chapter →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