Have a question about the Bible. Help please.?

Question

Ok, the following quote is from matthew second chapter and is refering to Jesus being taken back out of Egypt as a little boy.

Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene."

The part I am interested in where it says, and was said through the prohets:

Ok, I know somewhere in the Bible it talks about Jesus death. Which I think is in Daniel (I could be wrong). Can somebody tell me where all the prhphacies about Jesus were in the old testament. Thanks.

Answer 1

There are hundreds of prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament covering many books....many of the most famous are found in Isaiah, such as Isaiah chapter 53....(which includes this verse: "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....")

Answer 2

I doubt if anyone knows all the prophecies about Jesus but here are a few:
Genesis 49:10
Ps 132:11; Isa 9:7; 11:1, 10
Mic 5:2
Isa 7:14
Jer 31:15
Ho 11:1
Mal 3:1; 4:5; Isa 40:3
Isa 61:1,2
Isa 9:1, 2
Ps 78:2
Isa 53:4
Ps 9:9
Isa 42:1-4
Isa 53:1
Zec (:9; Ps 118:26
Isa 28:16; 53:3; Ps 69:8; 118:22, 23
Isa 8:14, 15
Ps 41:9; 109:8
Zec 11:12
Zec 13:7
Ps 2:1, 2
Isa 53:8
Ps 27:12
Isa 53:7
Ps 69:4
Isa 50:6; Mic 5:1
Ps 22:18
Isa 53:12
Ps 22:7, 8
Ps 69:21
Ps 22:1
Ps 34:20; Ex 12:46
Zec 12:10
Isa 53:5, 8,11, 12
Isa 53:9
Jon 1:17; 2:10
Ps 2:7

Answer 3

While there are many prophecies about Jesus spread out in the Old Testament, you need to know that there is no such specific prophecy in the Bible about the first of your question. This in fact is a common argument among Muslims when they state that Jesus was nothing more than a prophet. It is reasonable to assume that Matthew's reference to "the prophets" is used to indicate the general effect or result of what God had foretold through various prophets, rather than to refer to a specific prophecy.

Answer 4

I am not sure where in the old testament you can find the prophecies about Jesus but I do know that in Matthew 20:19 Jesus says to his twelve followers "They will give the Son of Man to the non-Jewish people to laugh at him and beat him with whips and crucify him. But on the third day, he will be raised to life again." I do believe that that is the first place that Jesus talks about his death.

Answer 5

Good question. There are literally hundreds of Old Testament versus that are supposed to be prophecies of Jesus. The one you mentioned in Matthew is from Judges 13:5. What's interesting about this prophecy, however, is that whoever wrote Matthew had no understanding of the Old Testament or the language in which it was written. Judges 13:5 reads "For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son...for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb."

On the surface this appears as though it's talking about Jesus. But if you read Judges 13:5 in context you find that the subject of this verse is not Jesus, or the Messiah, it is Samson. Furthermore, Nazarite means someone that doesn't cut their hair. It has absolutely nothing to do with the town of Nazareth (which incidentally didn't even exist at the time of Jesus' birth).

It would require a book to tell you where all the Old Testament prophecies are (in fact I have such a book [published by Pat Robertson]) but one thing they all have in common is that they must be taken out of context in order to be understood as prophecies. Many must be completely misunderstood or mistranslated to be taken as prophecies.

One example of mistranslating the OT into prophecy is Psalms 22:16 - "They pierced my hands and my feet." How could this not refer to Jesus' crucifixion? Well, in the Hebrew this actually reads "Like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet."

The writer of Matthew literally constructed his Jesus from cherry-picking versus from the Old Testament. Often he didn't even understand what these verses were talking about. But it didn't matter. The original audience of Matthew were not Jews and no fact checking was done for nearly 2000 years.

Answer 6

There are prophecies concerning Jesus all through the Old Testament, Isaiah and Daniel being the most cited, get a hold of any reference Bible and you will have all the material you want. Can be done on-line too!! :)

Answer 7

Good grief! The entire Old Testament all points to Messiah Jesus.

Walking with two of His disciples on the road to Emmaus, Jesus expounds on all the Old Testament prophecies concerning Himself.

Way too many to list here.

Answer 8

Mc 5:2
Mal 3:1
Zch 9:9
Zch 13:6
Zch 11:2
Zch 11:13
Is 53:7
Ps 22:16

Answer 9

Do like the rest of us read the bible don't rely on people picking things out of context for you.

Answer 10

Daniel 9:26 speaks of the "anointed one" (that is Jesus) being cut off. This foretells his death on the cross. Is that pehaps the one you were thinking of?