Bible Verses About Prophecies Respecting Christ

because the one whom God sent speaks God’s words. For God does not give him the Spirit in limited degree —

I can’t do a thing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is right; because I don’t seek my own desire, but the desire of the one who sent me.

so his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go into Y’hudah, so that your talmidim can see the miracles you do;

“Has any of the authorities trusted him? Or any of the P’rushim? No!

Also I have other sheep which are not from this pen; I need to bring them, and they will hear my voice; and there will be one flock, one shepherd.

So the head cohanim and the P’rushim called a meeting of the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? — for this man is performing many miracles.

“I’m not talking to all of you — I know which ones I have chosen. But the words of the Tanakh must be fulfilled that say, ‘The one eating my bread has turned against me.’

After saying this, Yeshua, in deep anguish of spirit, declared, “Yes, indeed! I tell you that one of you will betray me.”

If I had not done in their presence works which no one else ever did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now, they have seen them and have hated both me and my Father.

But this has happened in order to fulfill the words in their Torah which read, ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’

So Pilate went back into the headquarters, called Yeshua and said to him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

Yeshua answered, “Are you asking this on your own, or have other people told you about me?”

Pilate replied, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and head cohanim have handed you over to me; what have you done?”

Yeshua answered, “My kingship does not derive its authority from this world’s order of things. If it did, my men would have fought to keep me from being arrested by the Judeans. But my kingship does not come from here.”

“So then,” Pilate said to him, “You are a king, after all.” Yeshua answered, “You say I am a king. The reason I have been born, the reason I have come into the world, is to bear witness to the truth. Every one who belongs to the truth listens to me.”

Pilate then took Yeshua and had him flogged.

So Yeshua came out, wearing the thorn-branch crown and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Look at the man!”

There they nailed him to the stake along with two others, one on either side, with Yeshua in the middle.

but when they got to Yeshua and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.

However, one of the soldiers stabbed his side with a spear, and at once blood and water flowed out.

For these things happened in order to fulfill this passage of the Tanakh: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”

And again, another passage says, “They will look at him whom they have pierced.”

When the other talmidim told him, “We have seen the Lord,” he replied, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into the place where the nails were and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it.”

After saying this, he was taken up before their eyes; and a cloud hid him from their sight.

he was speaking in advance about the resurrection of the Messiah, that it was he who was not abandoned in Sh’ol and whose flesh did not see decay.