Bible Verses About Prophecies Respecting Christ: Fulfilled

Thus there were fourteen generations from Avraham to David, fourteen generations from David to the Babylonian Exile, and fourteen generations from the Babylonian Exile to the Messiah.

She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Yeshua, [which means `ADONAI saves,'] because he will save his people from their sins."

All this happened in order to fulfill what ADONAI had said through the prophet,

"The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him `Immanu El."a (The name means, "God is with us.")

After Yeshua was born in Beit-Lechem in the land of Y'hudah during the time when Herod was king, Magi from the east came to Yerushalayim

and asked, "Where is the newborn King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."

When King Herod heard of this he became very agitated, and so did everyone else in Yerushalayim. He called together all the head cohanim and Torah-teachers

of the people and asked them, "Where will the Messiah be born?"

"In BeitLechem of Y'hudah," they replied, "because the prophet wrote,

`And you, Beit-Lechem in the land of Y'hudah, are by no means the least among the rulers of Y'hudah; for from you will come a Ruler who will shepherd my people Isra'el.'"

Herod summoned the Magi to meet with him privately and asked them exactly when the star had appeared.

Then he sent them to Beit-Lechem with these instructions: "Search carefully for the child; and when you find him, let me know, so that I too may go and worship him."

After they had listened to the king, they went away; and the star which they had seen in the east went in front of them until it came and stopped over the place where the child was.

When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.

Upon entering the house, they saw the child with his mother Miryam; and they prostrated themselves and worshipped him. Then they opened their bags and presented him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

where he stayed until Herod died. This happened in order to fulfill what ADONAI had said through the prophet, "Out of Egypt I called my son."

Meanwhile, when Herod realized that the Magi had tricked him, he was furious and gave orders to kill all the boys in and around Beit-Lechem who were two years old or less, calculating from the time the Magi had told him.

In this way were fulfilled the words spoken through the prophet Yirmeyahu,

"A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and lamenting loudly. It was Rachel sobbing for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no longer alive."

It was during those days thatYochanan the Immerser arrived in the desert ofY'hudah and began proclaiming the message,

This is the man Yesha`yahu was talking about when he said, "The voice of someone crying out: `In the desert prepare the way of ADONAI! Make straight paths for him!'"

As soon as Yeshua had been immersed, he came up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, he saw the Spirit of God coming down upon him like a dove,

When Yeshua heard that Yochanan had been put in prison, he returned to the Galil;

but he left Natzeret and came to live in K'far-Nachum, a lake shore town near the boundary between Z'vulun and Naftali.

This happened in order to fulfill what Yesha`yahu the prophet had said,