QUESTION 6
What Did the Bible Foretell About the Messiah?
PROPHECY
“You, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, . . . from you will come out for me the one to be ruler in Israel.”
FULFILLMENT
“After Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, look! astrologers from the East came to Jerusalem.”
PROPHECY
“They divide my garments among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothing.”
FULFILLMENT
“Now when the soldiers had nailed Jesus to the stake, they took his outer garments and divided them into four parts . . . But the inner garment was without a seam, being woven from top to bottom. So they said to one another: ‘Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots over it to decide whose it will be.’”
PROPHECY
“He is guarding all his bones; not one of them has been broken.”
FULFILLMENT
“On coming to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead, so they did not break his legs.”
PROPHECY
“He was pierced for our transgression.”
FULFILLMENT
“One of the soldiers jabbed his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.”
PROPHECY
“They paid my wages, 30 pieces of silver.”
FULFILLMENT
“Then one of the Twelve, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said: ‘What will you give me to betray him to you?’ They stipulated to him 30 silver pieces.”
