Prophecies Respecting Christ
176 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
130 sections
- As the Seed of Abraham
- As the Seed of Abraham: Fulfilled
- As the Seed of David
- As the Seed of David: Fulfilled
- As the Seed of Isaac
- As the Seed of Isaac: Fulfilled
- As the Seed of the Woman
- As the Seed of the Woman: Fulfilled
- As the Son of God
- As the Son of God: Fulfilled
- Gall and Vinegar Being Given Him to Drink
- Gall and Vinegar Being Given Him to Drink: Fulfilled
- Great Persons Coming to Adore Him
- Great Persons Coming to Adore Him: Fulfilled
- His Ascension
- His Ascension: Fulfilled
- His Bearing Reproach
- His Bearing Reproach: Fulfilled
- His Being a Priest After the Order of Melchizedek
- His Being a Priest After the Order of Melchizedek: Fulfilled
- His Being a Prophet Like to Moses
- His Being a Prophet Like to Moses: Fulfilled
- His Being a Stone of Stumbling to the Jews
- His Being a Stone of Stumbling to the Jews: Fulfilled
- His Being Anointed with the Spirit
- His Being Anointed with the Spirit: Fulfilled
- His Being Betrayed by a Friend
- His Being Betrayed by a Friend: Fulfilled
- His Being Born a Virgin
- His Being Born a Virgin: Fulfilled
- His Being Born in Bethlehem of Judea
- His Being Born in Bethlehem of Judea: Fulfilled
- His Being Buried with the Rich
- His Being Buried with the Rich: Fulfilled
- His Being Called Immanuel
- His Being Called Immanuel: Fulfilled
- His Being Called out of Egypt
- His Being Called out of Egypt: Fulfilled
- His Being Forsaken by God
- His Being Forsaken by God: Fulfilled
- His Being Hated by the Jews
- His Being Hated by the Jews: Fulfilled
- His Being King in Zion
- His Being King in Zion: Fulfilled
- His Being Mocked
- His Being Mocked: Fulfilled
- His Being Numbered with the Transgressors
- His Being Numbered with the Transgressors: Fulfilled
- His Being Pierced
- His Being Pierced: Fulfilled
- His Being Preceded by John the Baptist
- His Being Preceded by John the Baptist: Fulfilled
- His Being Rejected by his Brethren
- His Being Rejected by his Brethren: Fulfilled
- His Being Rejected by the Jewish Rulers
- His Being Rejected by the Jewish Rulers: Fulfilled
- His Being Smitten on the Cheek
- His Being Smitten on the Cheek: Fulfilled
- His Being Sold for Thirty Pieces Silver
- His Being Sold for Thirty Pieces Silver: Fulfilled
- His Being Spit on and Scourged
- His Being Spit on and Scourged: Fulfilled
- His Being the Chief Corner-Stone of the Church
- His Being the Chief Corner-Stone of the Church: Fulfilled
- His Being Without Guile
- His Being Without Guile: Fulfilled
- His Coming at a Set Time
- His Coming at a Set Time: Fulfilled
- His Coming Into the Temple
- His Coming Into the Temple: Fulfilled
- His Death
- His Death: Fulfilled
- His Disciples Forsaking Him
- His Disciples Forsaking Him: Fulfilled
- His Entering on his Public Ministry
- His Entering on his Public Ministry: Fulfilled
- His Entering Publicly Into Jerusalem
- His Entering Publicly Into Jerusalem: Fulfilled
- His Exercising the Priestly office in Heaven
- His Exercising the Priestly office in Heaven: Fulfilled
- His Flesh not Seeing Corruption
- His Flesh not Seeing Corruption: Fulfilled
- His Garments Being Parted, and Lots Cast for his Vesture
- His Garments Being Parted, and Lots Cast for his Vesture: Fulfilled
- His Hands and Feet Being Nailed to the Cross
- His Hands and Feet Being Nailed to the Cross: Fulfilled
- His Intercession for his Murderers
- His Intercession for his Murderers: Fulfilled
- His Meekness and Want of Ostentatious
- His Meekness and Want of Ostentatious: Fulfilled
- His Ministry Commencing in Galilee
- His Ministry Commencing in Galilee: Fulfilled
- His Patience and Silence Under Suffering
- His Patience and Silence Under Suffering: Fulfilled
- His Poverty
- His Poverty: Fulfilled
- His Preaching by Parables
- His Preaching by Parables: Fulfilled
- His Price Being Given for the Potter's Field
- His Price Being Given for the Potter's Field: Fulfilled
- His Resurrection
- His Resurrection: Fulfilled
- His Righteous Government
- His Righteous Government: Fulfilled
- His Sitting on the Right Hand of God
- His Sitting on the Right Hand of God: Fulfilled
- His Sufferings Being for Others
- His Sufferings Being for Others: Fulfilled
- His Tenderness and Compassion
- His Tenderness and Compassion: Fulfilled
- His Universal Dominion
- His Universal Dominion: Fulfilled
- His Visage Being Marred
- His Visage Being Marred: Fulfilled
- His Working Miracles
- His Working Miracles: Fulfilled
- His Zeal
- His Zeal: Fulfilled
- That a Bone of Him should not be Broken
- That a Bone of Him should not be Broken: Fulfilled
- That the Jews and Gentiles should Combine Against Him
- That the Jews and Gentiles should Combine Against Him: Fulfilled
- The Conversion of the Gentiles to Him
- The Conversion of the Gentiles to Him: Fulfilled
- The Intensity of his Sufferings
- The Intensity of his Sufferings: Fulfilled
- The Perpetuity of his Kingdom
- The Perpetuity of his Kingdom: Fulfilled
- The Slaying of the Children of Bethlehem
- The Slaying of the Children of Bethlehem: Fulfilled
As the Seed of Abraham
- Genesis 17:7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Genesis 22:18 And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
As the Seed of Abraham: Fulfilled
- Galatians 3:16 The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.
As the Seed of David
- Psalm 132:11 The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
- Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
As the Seed of David: Fulfilled
- Acts 13:23 From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised.
- Romans 1:3 regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,
As the Seed of Isaac
- Genesis 21:12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
As the Seed of Isaac: Fulfilled
- Hebrews 11:17–19 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son, …
As the Seed of the Woman
- Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
As the Seed of the Woman: Fulfilled
- Galatians 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
As the Son of God
- Psalm 2:7 I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
As the Son of God: Fulfilled
- Luke 1:32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,
- Luke 1:35 The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
Gall and Vinegar Being Given Him to Drink
- Psalm 69:21 They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
Gall and Vinegar Being Given Him to Drink: Fulfilled
- Matthew 27:34 they offered Him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, He refused to drink it.
Great Persons Coming to Adore Him
- Psalm 72:10 May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
Great Persons Coming to Adore Him: Fulfilled
- Matthew 2:1–11 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, …
His Ascension
- Psalm 68:18 You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
His Ascension: Fulfilled
- Luke 24:51 While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.
- Acts 1:9 After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight.
His Bearing Reproach
- Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
- Psalm 69:7 For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.
- Psalm 69:9 because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
- Psalm 69:20 Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
His Bearing Reproach: Fulfilled
- Romans 15:3 For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”
His Being a Priest After the Order of Melchizedek
- Psalm 110:4 The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
His Being a Priest After the Order of Melchizedek: Fulfilled
- Hebrews 5:5–6 So also Christ did not take upon Himself the glory of becoming a high priest, but He was called by the One who said to Him: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.” …
His Being a Prophet Like to Moses
- Deuteronomy 18:15–18 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him. …
His Being a Prophet Like to Moses: Fulfilled
- Acts 3:20–22 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you. …
His Being a Stone of Stumbling to the Jews
- Isaiah 8:14 And He will be a sanctuary — but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
His Being a Stone of Stumbling to the Jews: Fulfilled
- Romans 9:32 Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
- 1 Peter 2:8 and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word— and to this they were appointed.
His Being Anointed with the Spirit
- Psalm 45:7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
- Isaiah 11:2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him— the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.
- Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
His Being Anointed with the Spirit: Fulfilled
- Matthew 3:16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.
- John 3:34 For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
- Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
His Being Betrayed by a Friend
- Psalm 41:9 Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
- Psalm 55:12–14 For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide. …
His Being Betrayed by a Friend: Fulfilled
- John 13:18 I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’
- John 13:21 After Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit and testified, “Truly, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”
His Being Born a Virgin
- Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
His Being Born a Virgin: Fulfilled
- Matthew 1:22–23 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: …
- Luke 2:7 And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
His Being Born in Bethlehem of Judea
- Micah 5:2 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel— One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
His Being Born in Bethlehem of Judea: Fulfilled
- Matthew 2:1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
- Luke 2:4–6 So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David. …
His Being Buried with the Rich
- Isaiah 53:9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
His Being Buried with the Rich: Fulfilled
- Matthew 27:57–60 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus. …
His Being Called Immanuel
- Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
His Being Called Immanuel: Fulfilled
- Matthew 1:22–23 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: …
His Being Called out of Egypt
- Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
His Being Called out of Egypt: Fulfilled
- Matthew 2:15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
His Being Forsaken by God
- Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
His Being Forsaken by God: Fulfilled
- Matthew 27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
His Being Hated by the Jews
- Psalm 69:4 Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me — my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.
- Isaiah 49:7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, …
His Being Hated by the Jews: Fulfilled
- John 15:24–25 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. …
His Being King in Zion
- Psalm 2:6 “I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
His Being King in Zion: Fulfilled
- Luke 1:32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,
- John 18:33–37 Pilate went back into the Praetorium, summoned Jesus, and asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” …
His Being Mocked
- Psalm 22:7–8 All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads: …
His Being Mocked: Fulfilled
- Matthew 27:39–44 And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads …
His Being Numbered with the Transgressors
- Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made …
His Being Numbered with the Transgressors: Fulfilled
His Being Pierced
- Zechariah 12:10 Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve …
His Being Pierced: Fulfilled
- John 19:34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
- John 19:37 And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”
His Being Preceded by John the Baptist
- Isaiah 40:3 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
- Malachi 3:1 “Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple — the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight — see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
His Being Preceded by John the Baptist: Fulfilled
- Matthew 3:1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea
- Matthew 3:3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
- Luke 1:17 And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous — to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
His Being Rejected by his Brethren
- Psalm 69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
- Isaiah 63:3 “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
His Being Rejected by his Brethren: Fulfilled
His Being Rejected by the Jewish Rulers
- Psalm 118:22 The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
His Being Rejected by the Jewish Rulers: Fulfilled
- Matthew 21:42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
- John 7:48 “Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?
His Being Smitten on the Cheek
- Micah 5:1 Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.
His Being Smitten on the Cheek: Fulfilled
- Matthew 27:30 Then they spit on Him and took the staff and struck Him on the head repeatedly.
His Being Sold for Thirty Pieces Silver
- Zechariah 11:12 Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
His Being Sold for Thirty Pieces Silver: Fulfilled
- Matthew 26:15 and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.
His Being Spit on and Scourged
- Isaiah 50:6 I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
His Being Spit on and Scourged: Fulfilled
- Mark 14:65 Then some of them began to spit on Him. They blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in His face.
- John 19:1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.
His Being the Chief Corner-Stone of the Church
- Isaiah 28:16 So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
His Being the Chief Corner-Stone of the Church: Fulfilled
- 1 Peter 2:6–7 For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.” …
His Being Without Guile
- Isaiah 53:9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
His Being Without Guile: Fulfilled
- 1 Peter 2:22 “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”
His Coming at a Set Time
- Genesis 49:10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
- Daniel 9:24–25 Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint …
His Coming at a Set Time: Fulfilled
- Luke 2:1 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
His Coming Into the Temple
- Haggai 2:7 I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.
- Haggai 2:9 The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says the LORD of Hosts. And in this place I will provide peace, declares the LORD of Hosts.”
- Malachi 3:1 “Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple — the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight — see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
His Coming Into the Temple: Fulfilled
- Matthew 21:12 Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.
- Luke 2:27–32 Led by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for Him what was customary under the Law, …
- John 2:13–16 When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. …
His Death
- Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made …
His Death: Fulfilled
- Matthew 27:50 When Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, He yielded up His spirit.
His Disciples Forsaking Him
- Zechariah 13:7 Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
His Disciples Forsaking Him: Fulfilled
- Matthew 26:31 Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
- Matthew 26:56 But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
His Entering on his Public Ministry
- Isaiah 61:1–2 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, …
His Entering on his Public Ministry: Fulfilled
- Luke 4:16–21 Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read, …
- Luke 4:43 But Jesus told them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well, because that is why I was sent.”
His Entering Publicly Into Jerusalem
- Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
His Entering Publicly Into Jerusalem: Fulfilled
- Matthew 21:1–5 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent out two disciples, …
His Exercising the Priestly office in Heaven
- Zechariah 6:13 Yes, He will build the temple of the LORD; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two.’
His Exercising the Priestly office in Heaven: Fulfilled
- Romans 8:34 Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God— and He is interceding for us.
His Flesh not Seeing Corruption
- Psalm 16:10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
His Flesh not Seeing Corruption: Fulfilled
- Acts 2:31 Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.
His Garments Being Parted, and Lots Cast for his Vesture
- Psalm 22:18 They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.
His Garments Being Parted, and Lots Cast for his Vesture: Fulfilled
- Matthew 27:35 When they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments by casting lots.
His Hands and Feet Being Nailed to the Cross
- Psalm 22:16 For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
His Hands and Feet Being Nailed to the Cross: Fulfilled
- John 19:18 There they crucified Him, and with Him two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.
- John 20:25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he replied, “Unless I see the nail marks in His hands, and put my finger where the nails have been, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe.”
His Intercession for his Murderers
- Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made …
His Intercession for his Murderers: Fulfilled
- Luke 23:34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.
His Meekness and Want of Ostentatious
- Isaiah 42:2 He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the streets.
His Meekness and Want of Ostentatious: Fulfilled
- Matthew 12:15–16 Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them all, …
- Matthew 12:19 He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear His voice in the streets.
His Ministry Commencing in Galilee
- Isaiah 9:1–2 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations: …
His Ministry Commencing in Galilee: Fulfilled
- Matthew 4:12–16 When Jesus heard that John had been imprisoned, He withdrew to Galilee. …
- Matthew 4:23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
His Patience and Silence Under Suffering
- Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
His Patience and Silence Under Suffering: Fulfilled
- Matthew 26:63 But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”
- Matthew 27:12–14 And when He was accused by the chief priests and elders, He gave no answer. …
His Poverty
- Isaiah 53:2 He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
His Poverty: Fulfilled
His Preaching by Parables
- Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
His Preaching by Parables: Fulfilled
- Matthew 13:34–35 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable. …
His Price Being Given for the Potter's Field
- Zechariah 11:13 And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”— this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
His Price Being Given for the Potter's Field: Fulfilled
- Matthew 27:7 After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.
His Resurrection
- Psalm 16:10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Isaiah 26:19 Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
His Resurrection: Fulfilled
- Luke 24:6 He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:
- Luke 24:31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus — and He disappeared from their sight.
- Luke 24:34 and saying, “The Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon!”
His Righteous Government
- Psalm 45:6–7 Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom. …
His Righteous Government: Fulfilled
- John 5:30 I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
- Revelation 19:11 Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.
His Sitting on the Right Hand of God
- Psalm 110:1 The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
His Sitting on the Right Hand of God: Fulfilled
- Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
His Sufferings Being for Others
- Isaiah 53:4–6 Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. …
- Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made …
- Daniel 9:26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will …
His Sufferings Being for Others: Fulfilled
- Matthew 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
His Tenderness and Compassion
- Isaiah 40:11 He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
- Isaiah 42:3 A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
His Tenderness and Compassion: Fulfilled
- Matthew 12:15 Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. Large crowds followed Him, and He healed them all,
- Matthew 12:20 A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
- Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
His Universal Dominion
- Psalm 72:8 May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
- Daniel 7:14 And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
His Universal Dominion: Fulfilled
- Philippians 2:9 Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,
- Philippians 2:11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
His Visage Being Marred
- Isaiah 52:14 Just as many were appalled at Him— His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness—
- Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
His Visage Being Marred: Fulfilled
- John 19:5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
His Working Miracles
- Isaiah 35:5–6 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. …
His Working Miracles: Fulfilled
- Matthew 11:4–6 Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see: …
- John 11:47 Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
His Zeal
- Psalm 69:9 because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
His Zeal: Fulfilled
- John 2:17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
That a Bone of Him should not be Broken
- Exodus 12:46 It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.
- Psalm 34:20 He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.
That a Bone of Him should not be Broken: Fulfilled
- John 19:33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
- John 19:36 Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”
That the Jews and Gentiles should Combine Against Him
- Psalm 2:1–2 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? …
That the Jews and Gentiles should Combine Against Him: Fulfilled
- Luke 23:12 That day Herod and Pilate became friends; before this time they had been enemies.
- Acts 4:27 In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
The Conversion of the Gentiles to Him
- Isaiah 11:10 On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
- Isaiah 42:1 “Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
The Conversion of the Gentiles to Him: Fulfilled
- Matthew 1:17 In all, then, there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.
- Matthew 1:21 She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- John 10:16 I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
- Acts 10:45 All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
- Acts 10:47 “Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”
The Intensity of his Sufferings
- Psalm 22:14–15 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me. …
The Intensity of his Sufferings: Fulfilled
- Luke 22:42 “Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.”
- Luke 22:44 And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
The Perpetuity of his Kingdom
- Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of …
- Daniel 7:14 And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
The Perpetuity of his Kingdom: Fulfilled
- Luke 1:32–33 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, …
The Slaying of the Children of Bethlehem
- Jeremiah 31:15 This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
The Slaying of the Children of Bethlehem: Fulfilled
- Matthew 2:16–18 When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi. …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.