What are the odds?
that any human being throughout history could have fulfilled just 48 of the 60 specific prophecies realetd to Jesus being the Messiah.
Jesus’s life on earth fulfilled over 300 Messianic prophecies.
When these prophecies come true it’s amazing enough, but when prophecies come true that Jesus had no specific ability to fulfill on his own it adds an exponential increase in the probability.
* He will be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2)
* He will be called a Nazarene (Matthew 2:23, alluding to Judges 13:5 or Isaiah 11:1 as a “branch”)
* He will be from the seed of Isaac (Genesis 21:12; 26:3–4)
* He will be from the seed of Jacob (Genesis 28:14; Numbers 24:17)
* David’s seed (Psalm 132:11; 2 Samuel 7:12–16)
* He will be from the line of Judah (Genesis 49:10)
* He will be betrayed by a friend (Psalm 41:9)
* The price of betrayal 30 pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12)
* The betrayal money will be cast to the floor of a temple (Zechariah 11:13)
* He will be forsaken by disciples (Zechariah 13:7)
* He will be accused by a false witness (Psalm 27:12; 35:11)
* He will be silent before His accusers (Isaiah 53:7) * He will be wounded and bruised (Isaiah 53:5)
* He will be hated without a cause (Psalm 35:19; 69:4)
* He will be struck and spit on (Isaiah 50:6)
* He will be mocked and rejected (Isaiah 53:3)
* He will collapse from weakness (Psalm 109:24–25, in context of suffering)
* He will be taunted with specific words (Psalm 22:7–8)
* People will shake their heads at him (Psalm 22:7; 109:25)
* Will bruise Satan’s head (Genesis 3:15)
* His heel will be bruised by a nail on a cross (Genesis 3:15, fulfilled in crucifixion piercing)
* Seed of Abraham (Genesis 22:18; Galatians 3:16)
* From a priest order of Melchizedek (Psalm 110:4)
* Says He is the Great “I AM.” (Exodus 3:14; John 8:58)
* Lamb presented four days before Passover (Exodus 12:3–6, typological of Jesus’ entry and examination)
* Cleanses a leper (Leviticus 14:1–32, ritual pointing to Messianic cleansing)
* Not a bone of Him broken (Exodus 12:46; Psalm 34:20)
* Will hang on a tree (Deuteronomy 21:23, applied to crucifixion)
* Ascends to heaven by 100’s of eyewitnesses (Psalm 68:18; Acts 1:9–11)
* Given vinegar in thirst (Psalm 69:21)
* Rod out of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1)
* Blind eyes opened by Him (Isaiah 35:5)
* A teacher (Isaiah 9:6, “Wonderful Counselor”; or Deuteronomy 18:15–18, prophet like Moses)
* Will ride in on donkey – a colt, the foal of a donkey (Zechariah 9:9)
* Pierced for transgression (Isaiah 53:5; Zechariah 12:10)
