Bible Verses About Prophecies Respecting Christ

For my eyes have seen Your salvation,

which You have prepared in the sight of all people,

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”

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,

the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it was written:

“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,

and He began by saying, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

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.”

Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

“Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.”

And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

That day Herod and Pilate became friends; before this time they had been enemies.

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.

He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you while He was still in Galilee:

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus—and He disappeared from their sight.

and saying, “The Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon!”

While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.

He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.

So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”