Bible Verses About Prophecies Respecting Christ

Likewise, the head cohanim jeered at him, along with the Torah-teachers and elders,

"He saved others, but he can't save himself!" "So he's King of Isra'el, is he? Let him come down now from the stake! Then we'll believe him!"

"He trusted God? So, let him rescue him if he wants him!s After all, he did say, `I'm the Son of God'!"

Even the robbers nailed up with him insulted him in the same way.

At about three, Yeshua uttered a loud cry, "Eli! Eli! L'mah sh'vaktani? (My God! My God! Why have you deserted me?)"

But Yeshua, again crying out in a loud voice, yielded up his spirit.

Towards evening, there came a wealthy man from Ramatayim named Yosef, who was himself a talmid of Yeshua.

He approached Pilate and asked for Yeshua's body, and Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Yosef took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen sheet,

and laid it in his own tomb, which he had recently had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone in front of the entrance to the tomb, he went away.

Isn't he just the carpenter? the son of Miryam? the brother of Ya`akov and Yosi and Y'hudah and Shim`on? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.

Then some began spitting at him; and after blindfolding him, they started pounding him with their fists and saying to him, "Let's see you prophesy!" And as the guards took him, they beat him too.

And the passage from the Tanakh was fulfilled which says,

He will go out ahead of ADONAI in the spirit and power of Eliyahu to turn the hearts of fathers to their childrena and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for ADONAI a people prepared."

He will be great, he will be called Son of Ha`Elyon. ADONAI, God, will give him the throne of his forefather David;

and he will rule the House of Ya`akov forever -- there will be no end to his Kingdom."

The angel answered her, "The Ruach HaKodesh will come over you, the power of Ha`Elyon will cover you. Therefore the holy child born to you will be called the Son of God.

Around this time, Emperor Augustus issued an order for a census to be taken throughout the Empire.

So Yosef, because he was a descendant of David, went up from the town of Natzeret in the Galil to the town of David, called Beit-Lechem, in Y'hudah,

to be registered, with Miryam, to whom he was engaged, and who was pregnant.

While they were there, the time came for her to give birth;

and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in cloth and laid him down in a feeding trough, because there was no space for them in the living-quarters.

Prompted by the Spirit, he went into the Temple courts; and when the parents brought in the child Yeshua to do for him what the Torah required,

Shim`on took him in his arms, made a b'rakhah to God, and said,

"Now, ADONAI, according to your word, your servant is at peace as you let him go;