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Jews for Jesus has curated approximately 40 of the most helpful messianic prophecies along with their New Testament fulfillments. Through this collection, we trust you will gain a deeper understanding of God’s redemptive plan for his people through the promised Messiah.Curated by Rich Robinson, Senior Researcher

After Yeshua (Jesus) was crucified, some of his followers were crushed. They had hoped that he would be the Messiah who would destroy the tyranny of Rome and restore the kingdom of Israel. But their idea of the Messiah was not God’s idea. Yeshua died, but he also rose from the dead, and to his disappointed followers he said:

“How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” (Luke 24:25–27 NIV, Luke 24:32 NIV)

“To suffer these things and then to enter his glory,” he had to first die as an atonement for our sins and then rise from the dead—as the prophets of the Hebrew Bible had said.

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THE MESSIAH WOULD BE THE

SEED OF THE WOMAN.

THE MESSIAHWOULD BE THE

DESCENDANT OF ABRAHAM THROUGH WHOM ALL NATIONS

WOULD BE BLESSED

FULFILLMENT

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.Romans 16:20

See also:Galatians 4:4Hebrews 2:14Revelation 12:9Revelation 12:17

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I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.Genesis 3:15

FULFILLMENT

And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’ God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.Acts 3:24–26

TANAKH REFERENCE

I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.Genesis 12:3

FULFILLMENT

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”John 3:16

TANAKH REFERENCE

When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.

Genesis 22:9–10

See also:Genesis 22:1–18

THE MESSIAHWOULD BE A

WILLING SACRIFICE

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FULFILLMENT

For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed.Romans 15:18

See also:Matthew 2:6Matthew 2:11Romans 1:5Romans 16:26Hebrews 7:14Revelation 5:5

FULFILLMENT

Behold, the Lamb of GodThe next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”John 1:29

See also:John 1:36John 19:33John 19:361 Corinthians 5:7–81 Peter 1:19

TANAKH REFERENCE

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.Genesis 49:10

TANAKH REFERENCE

Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. . . . Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old . . . Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it . . . This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. . . . Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

In the following sections of the passage the tenth plague: death of the firstborn takes place as well as the exodus and the institution of Passover.

All the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.Exodus 12:1–51

THE MESSIAHWOULD BE THE

COMING ONE TO WHOM THE

SCEPTER BELONGS

THE MESSIAHWOULD BE THE

PASSOVER LAMB

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FULFILLMENT

And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”

Matthew 13:57

See also:Matthew 21:46Luke 24:19John 1:21John 1:25John 6:14John 7:40Acts 3:22Acts 7:37

TANAKH REFERENCE

“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen. . . I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.”Deuteronomy 18:15–19

FULFILLMENT

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.John 3:14-18

FULFILLMENT

Saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”Matthew 2:2

See also:Revelation 22:16

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“I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.”Numbers 24:17

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Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.Numbers 21:6–9

THE MESSIAHWOULD BE

A PROPHET LIKE MOSES

THE MESSIAHWOULD BE THE STAR

COMING OUT OF JACOB

THE MESSIAHWOULD BE LIFTED UP

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FULFILLMENT

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.Matthew 1:1

See also:Luke 1:32–33Acts 15:15–16Hebrews 1:5

TANAKH REFERENCE

“When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.”2 Samuel 7:12–13

See also:2 Samuel 7:12–16

THE MESSIAHWOULD BE

A DESCENDANTOF DAVID

TANAKH REFERENCE

“So I thought I would tell you of it and say, ‘Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you.” And he said, “I will redeem it.” Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.” Then the redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.” Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel. So when the redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” he drew off his sandal. Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon.”Ruth 4:4–9

FULFILLMENT

And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.Luke 1:50

See also:Luke 1:58Luke 1:68Luke 1:72Luke 1:781 Peter 1:18Hebrews 2:11

THE MESSIAH WOULD BE OUR

KINSMAN-REDEEMER

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