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Descendent
of Abraham
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Genesis
18:18 "Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all
nations on earth will be blessed through him."
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Acts
3:25 "And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God made with
your fathers. He said to Abraham, 'Through your offspring all peoples on
earth will be blessed.'"
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Descendent
of Isaac
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Genesis
17:19 "Then God said, 'Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and
you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an
everlasting covenant for his descendents after him.'"
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Matthew
1:2 "Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob
the father of Judah and his brothers.
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Descendent
of Jacob
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Numbers
24:17 "I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will
come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel."
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Luke
3:34 "The son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of
Terah, the son of Nahor."
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Will
descend from the tribe of Judah
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Genesis
49:10 "The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff
from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience
of the nations is his."
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Luke
3:33 "The son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son
of Perez, the son of Judah."
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Place
of birth to be Bethlehem
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Micah
5:2 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans
of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel,
whose origins are from of old, from ancient times."
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Matthew
2:1 "After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of
King Herod..."
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Will
be born of a virgin
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Isaiah
7:14 "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will
be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him
Immanuel."
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Matthew
1:18 "This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. His mother Mary
was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was
found to be with child through the Holy Spirit."
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Infants
will be slaughtered
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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 her children are no more.'"
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Matthew
2:16 "When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he
was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its
vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he
had learned from the Magi."
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Will
escape into Egypt as a child
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Hoseah
11:1 "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called
my son."
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Matthew
2:14 "So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and
left for Egypt."
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Will
minister in Galilee and along the Jordan River
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Isaiah
9:1-2 "Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in
distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of
Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the Gentiles, by the
way of the sea, along the Jordan--The people walking in darkness have seen
a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light
has dawned."
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Matthew
4:12-16 "Jesus...returned to Galilee. Leaving Nazareth, he went and
lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and
Naphtali--to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah: Land of
Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way to the sea, along the Jordan, Galilee
of the Gentiles--The people living in darkness have seen a great light; on
those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned."
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He
will be rejected by the Jewish people
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Isaiah
53:3 "He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and
familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was
despised, and we esteemed him not."
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John
1:11 "He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive
him."
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Character
of wisdom and understanding
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Isaiah
11:2 "The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him--the Spirit of wisdom
and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of the Lord."
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Luke
2:52 "And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and
men."
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He
will enter triumphantly into Jerusalem on a young donkey
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Zechariah
9:9 "Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of
Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation,
gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."
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John
12:13-14 "They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
'Hosanna!' 'Blessed is the King of Israel!' Jesus found a young donkey and
sat upon it, as it is written."
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The
time of his entry prophesied to the very day
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Daniel
9:25-26 "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to
restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Annointed One, the ruler, comes,
there will be seven 'sevens' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt
with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two
'sevens' the Annointed One will be cut off and will have nothing."
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This
prophesy refers to weeks of years, or 483 biblical years. Beginning with
the exact day on which Persian King Artaxerxes gave the decree to rebuild
the walls of Jerusalem (March 5, 444 BC), exactly 173,880 days later--Palm
Sunday, March 30, AD33--Christ rode into Jerusalem the week before he was
'cut off' (crucified). This is the precise number of days spanning 483
biblical years, which were then measured as 12 months of 30 days each.
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Betrayed
by a close friend
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Psalm
41:9 "Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread,
has lifted up his heel against me."
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Mark
14:10 "Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests
to betray Jesus to them."
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He
will be sold for thirty pieces of silver
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Zechariah
11:12 "I told them, 'If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not,
keep it.' So they paid me thirty pieces of silver."
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Matthew
26:15 "And asked, 'What are you willing to give me if I hand him over
to you?' So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver."
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Money
returned and used to buy potter's field
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Zechariah
11:13 "And the Lord said to me, 'Throw it to the potter'--the handsome
price at which they priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and
threw them into the house of the Lord to the potter."
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Matthew
27:6-7 "The chief priests picked up the coins and said, 'It is against
the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.' So they
decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for
foreigners."
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Silent
when accused during his trial
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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."
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Matthew
26:62-63 "Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, 'Are you
not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing
against you?' But Jesus remained silent. 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.'"
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He
will suffer for others
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Isaiah
53:4-5 "Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet
we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was
pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the
punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are
healed."
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Matthew
8:16-17 "When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought
to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.
This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: 'He took up
our infirmities and carried our diseases.'"
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He
will be crucified with sinners
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Isaiah
53:12 "Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he
will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto
death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of
many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
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Matthew
27:38 "Two robbers were crucified with him, one on his right and one
on his left."
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His
hands and feet will be pierced
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Psalm
22:16 "Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me,
they have pierced my hands and my feet."
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John
20:27 "Then he said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; see my hands.
Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and
believe.'"
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Will
be mocked and insulted by the people
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Psalm
22:6-8 "But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by
the peopple. All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their
heads: 'He trusts in the Lord; let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver
him, since he delights in him.'"
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Matthew
27:39-40 "Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their
heads and saying, 'You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in
three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of
God!'"
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Will
be given gall and vinegar to drink
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Psalm
69:21 "They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my
thirst."
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John
19:29 "A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it,
put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus'
lips."
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His
side will be pierced with a spear
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Zechariah
12:10 "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the
one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an
only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn
son."
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John
19:34 "Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear,
bringing a sudden flow of blood and water."
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Soldiers
will cast lots for his clothing
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Psalm
22:18 "They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my
clothing."
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Mark
15:24 "And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots
to see what each would get."
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Not a
bone of his body will be broken
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Psalm
34: 20 "He protects all his bones, not one of them will be
broken."
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John
19:33 "But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead,
they did not break his legs."
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Will
be buried in a rich man's tomb
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Isaiah
53:9 "He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in
his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his
mouth."
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Matthew
27:57-60 "As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea,
named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate,
he asked for Jesus' body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.
Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it in
his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in
front of the entrance to the tomb and went away."
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He
will be resurrected after his death
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Psalm
16:10 "Because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let
your Holy One see decay."
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Matthew
28:9 "Suddenly Jesus met them. 'Greetings,' he said. They came to him,
clasped his feet and worshiped him."
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He
will ascend into heaven
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Psalm
68:18 "When you ascended on high, you led captives in your train; you
received gifts from men, even from the rebellious--that you, O Lord God,
might dwell there."
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Luke
24:50-51 "When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he
lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left
them and was taken up into heaven."
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