Bible Verses About Prophecies Respecting Christ

for I have seen with my own eyes your yeshu`ah,

which you prepared in the presence of all peoples --

a light that will bring revelation to the Goyim and glory to your people Isra'el."

Now when he went to Natzeret, where he had been brought up, on Shabbat he went to the synagogue as usual. He stood up to read,

and he was given the scroll of the prophet Yesha`yahu. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written,

"The Spirit of ADONAI is upon me; therefore he has anointed me to announce Good News to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the imprisoned and renewed sight for the blind, to release those who have been crushed,

to proclaim a year of the favor of ADONAI."

After closing the scroll and returning it to the shammash, he sat down; and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

He started to speak to them: "Today, as you heard it read, this passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled!"

But he said to them, "I must announce the Good News of the Kingdom of God to the other towns too -- this is why I was sent."

Yeshua answered him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds flying about have nests, but the Son of Man has no home of his own.”

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, let not my will but yours be done.”

and in great anguish he prayed more intensely, so that his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

That day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other; previously they had been enemies.

Yeshua said, “Father, forgive them; they don’t understand what they are doing.” They divided up his clothes by throwing dice.

He is not here; he has been raised. Remember how he told you while he was still in the Galil,

Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. But he became invisible to them.

saying, “It’s true! The Lord has risen! Shim‘on saw him!”

and as he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.

He came to his own homeland, yet his own people did not receive him.

It was almost time for the festival of Pesach in Y’hudah, so Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.

In the Temple grounds he found those who were selling cattle, sheep and pigeons, and others who were sitting at tables exchanging money.

He made a whip from cords and drove them all out of the Temple grounds, the sheep and cattle as well. He knocked over the money-changers’ tables, scattering their coins;

and to the pigeon-sellers he said, “Get these things out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market?”

(His talmidim later recalled that the Tanakh says, “Zeal for your house will devour me.” )