how many prophecys were made about Jesus in the old testament?

Question

i want to know exancly how many there r and were u can find them.

Answer 1

There are no valid prophecies in the bible of any kind.

Answer 2

None unless you first accept that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, in which case just 1 - the lineage of David.

Christians claim there are hundreds, but when you look at the "prophecies" in question, you notice two things:

- most are taken out of context and never were messianic prophecies at all. Most of them come from Isaiah 53, which was a poetic lamentation about the nation of Israel itself, not Messianic prophecy.

- the rest can not be confirmed to have actually happened outside the New Testament. You first have to buy into the Christian meme before this will seem to be credible evidence.

Answer 3

None. Jesus knew the OT by heart and he started trying to do stuff to fulfill as many as he could. The ones he couldn't fill by himself they wrote in after his death. The prophecies were never meant to apply to just 1 person. That's something the Christians made up afterward.

Oh, and most of the ones they call prophecies weren't prophecies. They were history and Jesus just repeated them.

Answer 4

Scores of Messianic prophecies recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures could be cited as having been fulfilled in connection with Jesus Christ. However, some of them were directly applied to him under divine inspiration by writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures themselves. Consider some examples. Matthew was inspired by Jehovah God to show that Jesus was born of a virgin, as Isaiah 7:14 foretold (Matt. 1:18-23), that the killing of babes after his birth fulfilled Jeremiah 31:15 (Matt. 2:16-18), that he was called out of Egypt, in harmony with Hosea 11:1 (Matt. 2:14, 15), that he had a forerunner, in keeping with Isaiah 40:3 (Matt. 3:1-3), and that Jesus carried our sicknesses, as Isaiah 53:4 prophesied. (Matt. 8:16, 17) Acting under divine inspiration, the apostle John showed that Zechariah 9:9 found fulfillment when Jesus entered Jerusalem on the colt of an *** (John 12:12-15), that the prophecy of Psalm 22:18 was fulfilled after Jesus’ impalement when the soldiers apportioned his clothing among themselves and cast lots for his inner garment (John 19:23, 24) and that the fact that Jesus’ bones were not broken and he was pierced also fulfilled prophecy. (Compare Psalm 34:20 and Zechariah 12:10 with John 19:33-37.)

Answer 5

There aren't any prophecies about Jesus specifically, but there are numerous ones about the coming of a Messiah.

Christians believe Jesus is that Messiah. Jews believe the Messiah is yet to come.

Answer 6

there are over 300 Messianic prophecies in the Old testament.

Answer 7

lol,
some of these are really funny. like someone wrote that when matthew referred to the prophecy of his being a nazarene, that it is referring to judges 13:5. Firstly, that's referring to samson. secondly it says nazarite, not nazarene. of course, for someone that doesn't speak hebrew the words sound alike, but much like "hair" and "here" and "hear" sound alike, they are not related at all. In hebrew the words are completely different! lol (btw, to the best of my knowledge, not only is there no prophecy about the messiah bein a nazarene, I don't even think the town of nazareth is even mentioned the hebrew bible! so, what is matthew referring to? uh-oh!)

anyways, I do think there is one prophecy which could well refer to jesus:
Zacheriah 13:6
"And one shall say unto him: 'What are these wounds between thy hands?' Then he shall answer: 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.'"

Of course, that passage is talking about false idols, sooooo...

Answer 8

There were many - I don't know who these idiots are that are posting to your question - but there were many - especially in the book of "Kings" & 1st & 2nd Samuel where the story of David is told.

Good luck on finding out.

JT - good luck on judgement day - you will feel the burn the second your life is over.

Answer 9

There are HUNDREDS. Here's a link at a web site that appears to be a complete list:

http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/messiah.htm

As you can see, "most" ARE NOT taken from Isaiah 53, as written above, although Isaiah 53 is most certainly quite informative; and Isaiah 53 has NOTHING to do with Israel as the "suffering servant." Anyone who cares to debate that, please email me.

Peace and love in Jesus.

Answer 10

over 400 I think that he fulfilled I have about 40 out lined in my bible
the ones we mainly remember is that he will be born in Bethlehem . be from Nazareth, come out of Egypt all these were full fulled and there are many concerning his death and burial