Where in the Old Testament are we told that Jesus was to suffer and die?

Question

Prophecy here again has been written hundreds of years before the event actually took place. We can all guess at what might happen in the future and inevitably we will get it wrong but the proof of a true prophet of God is that these prophecies do come true.

Answer 1

Several places ...

Accused by false witnesses: Psalms .27:12

Silent to accusations: Isaiah 53:7

Spat and struck: Isaiah 50:6

Hated without reason: Psalms 69:4

Crucified, "pierced through hands and feet": Zechariah 12:10, Psalm 22:16

Agonized in Thirst: Psalm 22:15, Given gall and vinegar: Psalm 69:21

His side pierced: Zechariah 12:10

Vicarious Sacrifice: Isaiah 53:4-5, 6, 12

Resurrection of Jesus: Hosea 6:2, Psalms 16:10, 49:15

Among others ...

Answer 2

As well as texts like Isaiah 53 there is the Abraham coming to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Moria (which is regarded by Jews as identical with Moun Zion in Jerusalem).

In that event, Abraham was told Isaac didn't need to be sacrificed since a sacrifice was found, a goat caught in a tree nearby .. rather symbolic of Jesus being sacrificed outside the city wall on a tree.

One of the Daniel prophecies says the Messiah will be cut off from the land, you'd have to check it.

Answer 3

Genesis 3:15: “I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel.”
This was the first bible prophecy regarding Jesus and Satan
The promise at Genesis 3:15 indicates that immediately after Adam and Eve sinned, God determined that his symbolic woman was to bring forth a seed, or son. God also foresaw the result of the enmity between his woman and Satan and between their opposing seeds. Although God would allow the Seed of God’s woman to suffer a bruising in the heel, in God’s due time, the Seed would bruise the serpent, or Satan the Devil, in the head. In the meantime, God's purpose unfailingly advanced through the chosen genealogical line down to Jesus’ appearing as the promised Messiah and this family line can be found at Luke 3:23-38

Also Jesus was bruised in the heel because he did die on earth as a result of the wicked people on earth who were and are apart of Satan's system, but Jesus was resurrected back to his heavenly position so that bruising did not last long, on the other hand Satan will be bruised in the head, so he is going to get everlastin destruction, no coming back for him, think about it, which is worse, a head injury of a scab on the foot.

Answer 4

Others have mentioned Isaiah 53.

Another example, Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac was a similitude of Heavenly Father’s willingness to sacrifice his Only Begotten Son (Genesis 22:8, Genesis 22:13).

In some way we can be compared to Isaac. If Isaac represents us, whom does the ram in the thicket represent? Jesus Christ.

This story … shows the goodness of God in protecting Isaac and in providing a substitute so he would not have to die. Because of our sins and our mortality, we, like Isaac, are condemned to death. When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice”

Why is Isaac referred to in Genesis 22:16 as Abraham’s only son? Well, Isaac was the son through whom the covenant would continue. This reference also emphasizes the parallel between Isaac and our Savior, the Only Begotten Son of the Father.)

Also in Numbers 21: 6-9 - another similitude of Christ when Moses lifts up a serpent of brass to save those who look thereon.

Answer 5

Also Isaiah 52:14
Isaiah 50:6
then of course Isaiah 53

Answer 6

I read the first part of your question and went to find one of the scriptures that fortold the coming Messiah. I am not sure what you are trying to say in the rest of your question but read Daniel 9:26 - Daniel is one of the books that deals with a lot of prophecy.

Answer 7

Isaiah 53

Answer 8

You're not told this ANYWHERE in the old testament - Jesus is not mentioned in the old testament.

There is reference to the messiah, but it is clear that this is not Jesus. Jewish belief is that when the true messiah arrives, we will know because, apart from other things, there will be peace on earth.

No Jew believes that Jesus was the messiah - and I challenge anyone to find a messiah named Jesus, or his hebrew name, in the Old Testament.

Answer 9

Isaiah 53, Psalm 22 for starters.

Answer 10

You have enough references.

Hear also what Christ said :

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

We clearly need our eyes opened, even though it is beyond mistake or dispute, because sin blinds us.

There are more than 300 references to Christ in the Old Testament which accurately, clearly, and in some detail identify Jesus Christ as the Promised One. Yet still Israel failed to recognise Him, and worse still the Jews still refuse to recognise Him.

Sin blinds us, even to what is obvious.

The mathematical odds of anyone fulfilling those prophecies are astronomical and mathematicians will call Christ's fulfillment of them a mathematical certainty.

Now it is impossible for any to fulfill those prophecies and it is also impossible for some of those prophecies to be fulfilled now. Circumstances have changed to prevent it. Because, of course, One has fulfilled them and they have been fulfilled.

But still the Jews, and others, take an impossible position.

As said before we all need our eyes opened.