Jesus Christ is the English translated name of the man who was born a Jew and grew up in Israel. His Hebrew name is Yeshua which means “salvation”. In Greek the name is “Iesous” and in Latin it is “Iesus“.

However, in this discussion, we will use the Hebrew name Yeshua to prove that the man also called Yeshua HaMashiach fulfilled the prophecies of the Messiah as promised in the Jewish scriptures. This study is aimed at presenting scriptures in the Old Testament and showing the relevant scriptures in the New Testament to show how the prophecy regarding the Messiah was fulfilled in Yeshua HaMashiach. The chances of one person fulfilling just one or two of the prophecies by one man is good but the chances of one man fulfilling all of them is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1. The odds are that Yeshua is who He claims to be and more.The Old Testament scriptures are taken from the New English Translation (NET) Bible. The New Testament scriptures are taken from the Aramaic Bible in Plain English.

Prophecy –Genesis 3:15 “And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”

Fulfillment- John 19:17-19 ” Then he took up his cross to the place called Qaraqpatha, but in Hebrew  it is called Gagultha, Where they crucified him and two others with him, one on one side and one on the other side, and Yeshua in the center. And Pilate wrote a title and placed it on his cross, but it was written thus: “This is Yeshua the Nazarene, The King of the Judeans.”

Prophecy-Exodus 12:46- It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

Fulfillment- John 19:36- For these things happened that the scripture should be fulfilled that says, “Not a bone of him will be broken”

Prophecy- Psalm 2:2-The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the LORD and his anointed king.

Fulfillment-Mark 15:1- And at once in the morning the Chief Priests made a council with the Elders and with the Scribes and with the whole assembly, and they bound Yeshua and brought him and delivered him to Pilate.

Prophecy- Psalm 22:1- For the music director; according to the tune “Morning Doe;” a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.

Fulfillment- Matthew 27:46- “And toward the ninth hour Yeshua cried with a loud voice and he said, “Oh God, oh God! Why have you forsaken me?”

Prophecy- Psalm 22:6- “But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.”

Fulfillment- Matthew 27:39-44- But those who were passing by were reviling him and shaking their heads; And they were saying, “The One who destroys The Temple and builds it in three days, save yourself, if you are The Son of God, and come down from the cross.” Thus also the Chief Priests were mocking with the Scribes and the Elders and the Pharisees. And they were saying, “He saved others, he cannot save himself; if he is The King of Israel, let him descend now from the cross and we will trust in him.” “He trusted on God, let him save him now, if he delights in him, for he has said, ‘I am The Son of God.’ “ Thus also those robbers who were crucified with him were taunting him.

Prophecy- Psalm 22:7-8- All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads. They say, “Commit yourself to the Lord! Let the Lord rescue him! Let the Lord deliver him, for he delights in him.

Fulfillment-Matthew 27:39-44- But those who were passing by were reviling him and shaking their heads; And they were saying, “The One who destroys The Temple and builds it in three days, save yourself, if you are The Son of God, and come down from the cross.” Thus also the Chief Priests were mocking with the Scribes and the Elders and the Pharisees. And they were saying, “He saved others, he cannot save himself; if he is The King of Israel, let him descend now from the cross and we will trust in him.” “He trusted on God, let him save him now, if he delights in him, for he has said, ‘I am The Son of God.’ “ Thus also those robbers who were crucified with him were taunting him.

Prophecy-  Psalm 22:16-18 Yes, wild dogs surround me –a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet. I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph. They are dividing up my clothes among themselves; they are rolling dice for my garments.

Fulfillment-John 19: 17-19-Then he took up his cross to the place called Qaraqpatha, but in Hebrew * it is called Gagultha, Where they crucified him and two others with him, one on one side and one on the other side, and Yeshua in the center. And Pilate wrote a title and placed it on his cross, but it was written thus: “This is Yeshua the Nazarene, The King of the Judeans.”

Fulfillment- Matthew 27:35-36- And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments by lots. And they were sitting and keeping watch for him there. 

 

Prophecy-  Psalm 31:5- Into your hand I entrust my life; you will rescue me, O Lord, the faithful God.

Fulfillment-Luke 23:46- And Yeshua called out in a loud voice and he said, “My Father, into your hands I lay down my spirit.” He said this and he expired.

Prophecy-Psalm 34:20- He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken.

Fulfillment-John 19:32-37- And the soldiers came and they broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with him. When they came to Yeshua, they saw that he had died already and they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers struck him on his side with his spear, and at once blood and water issued forth. And he who saw testified and his testimony is true and he knows that he spoke the truth so that you also may believe. For these things happened that the scripture should be fulfilled that says, “Not a bone of him will be broken”, And another scripture again, that says, “They shall gaze at him whom they pierced through.”

Prophecy-Psalm 35:11- Violent men perjure themselves, and falsely accuse me.

Fulfillment- Mark 14:55-59 –But the Chief Priests and all their assembly were seeking testimony against Yeshua, that they might put him to death, and they were not able. For many were testifying against him, but their testimony was not worthy. But people rose up against him and they were testifying lies, and they said: “We have heard him say, ‘I shall destroy this temple that is made with hands and in three days I shall build another that is not made with hands.'” But likewise, neither was their testimony worthy.

Prophecy-Psalm 38:11-Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.

Fulfillment-Luke 23:49- And all the acquaintances of Yeshua and those women who had come with him from Galilee were standing afar off and they were beholding these things.

Prophecy- Psalm 41:9- Even my close friend whom I trusted, he who shared meals with me, has turned against me

Fulfillment- John 13:18- “I have not spoken about all of you, for I know those whom I have chosen, but that the scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’ “

Prophecy- Psalm 69:19- You know how I am insulted, humiliated and disgraced; you can see all my enemies.

Fulfillment- Matthew 27:28-29- Then the soldiers of the Governor led Yeshua to the Praetorium, and they gathered the whole regiment around him. And they stripped him and they clothed him with a scarlet robe.

Prophecy-Psalm 69:21- They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

Fulfillment-Matthew 27:34- And they gave him vinegar* to drink that was mixed with gall, and he tasted and he did not want to drink it.

Prophecy- Psalm 109:25- I am disdained by them. When they see me, they shake their heads.

Fulfillment-Matthew 27:39- But those who were passing by were reviling him and shaking their heads;

Prophecy- Isaiah 50:6- I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

Fulfillment-Matthew 26:67- And they spat in his face, and they were beating his head. But others were striking him.

Prophecy-  Isaiah 53:3- He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.

Fulfillment-John 1:11- He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 

Prophecy-  Isaiah 53:5,6,10- He was wounded because of our rebellious deeds,crushed because of our sins;he endured punishment that made us well;because of his wounds we have been healed. All of us had wandered off like sheep;each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord caused the sin of all of us to attack him….Though the Lord desired to crush him and make him ill, once restitution is made, he will see descendants and enjoy long life, and the Lord’s purpose will be accomplished through him.

Fulfillment- Romans 5:6,8- But surely because of our weakness, at this time The Messiah has died for the sake of the wicked. For a man will hardly die for the sake of the wicked*, however a man perhaps may dare to die for the sake of the good. Here God demonstrates his love for us, because if when we were sinners, The Messiah died in our place,

Prophecy-Isaiah 53:7- He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth

Fulfillment- Matthew 27:13-14- Then Pilate said to him, “Have you not heard how much they testify against you?”And he gave him no response, not even a word, and at this he marveled greatly.

Fulfillment-Matthew 26:62-63- And the High Priest stood and said to him, “Do you not return an answer? What are these testifying against you?”But Yeshua was silent, and The High Priest answered and said to him, “I adjure you by THE LIVING GOD that you tell us if you are The Messiah, The Son of God.” 

Prophecy-Isaiah 53:8- He was led away after an unjust trial –but who even cared? Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the rebellion of his own people he was wounded.

Fulfillment-Mark 15:1-25-And at once in the morning the Chief Priests made a council with the Elders and with the Scribes and with the whole assembly, and they bound Yeshua and brought him and delivered him to Pilate. And Pilate asked him,” You are The King of the Judeans?” But he answered and said to him, “You have said.” And the Chief Priests accused him of many things. Then Pilate again asked him and said to him, “Do you not answer? See how many are testifying against you!” But Yeshua gave no answer, to Pilate’s amazement. But he had set a time at every feast to release one prisoner to them, whomever they requested. And there was one who was called Barabba, who was bound with those who had made sedition, who had committed murder in the sedition. And the people cried out and they began to ask that he would keep the custom which he had been doing for them. And Pilate answered and said, “Are you willing that I release to you The King of the Judeans?” For Pilate had known that for envy the Chief Priests had delivered him to them. But the Chief Priests urged the crowd all the more that he would release Barabba to them. But Pilate said to them, “What do you want me to do to this one whom you call The King of the Judeans?” But they again cried out, “Crucify him!” But Pilate said to them, “What evil has he done?” And they were crying out even more, “Crucify him!” But Pilate chose to do the will of the crowds and he released Barabba to them and delivered Yeshua to them, after he had been scourged, to be crucified. But the soldiers led him within the courtyard, which is the Praetorium, and they called the whole company of soldiers. And they clothed him in purple and they wound and placed on him a crown of thorns. And they began to greet him: “Hail, King of the Judeans!” And they were hitting him on his head with a reed and spitting in his face and bowing on their knees and worshiping him. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple and clothed him in his clothes and led him to crucify him. And they detained one who was passing by, Shimeon, a Cyrenian, who had come from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to take up his cross. And they brought him to the place Gagultha, which is interpreted, “The Skull.” And they gave him wine to drink, mixed with myrrh, but he would not take it. And when they crucified him, they divided his garments and cast lots for them, who would take what. But it was the third hour when they crucified him. And the pretext of his death was written in this writing: “This is The King of the Judeans.”

Prophecy-Isaiah 53:9- They intended to bury him with criminals, but he ended up in a rich man’s tomb, because he had committed no violent deeds, nor had he spoken deceitfully.

Fulfillment-Matthew 27:57-60- When it was evening, a rich man from Ramtha named Yoseph came, who also had been a disciple of Yeshua,This one came to Pilate and requested the body of Yeshua, and Pilate commanded that the body would be given to him. And Yoseph took the body and wound it in a sheet of pure linen. And he placed it in a new tomb belonging to him, which was cut in stone, and they rolled a great stone and set it against the doorway of the tomb and they departed.

Prophecy-Isaiah 53:12- So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes,he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful, because he willingly submitted to death and was numbered with the rebels, when he lifted up the sin of many and intervened on behalf of the rebels.”

Fulfillment-Mark 15:27-28-And they crucified two robbers with him, one at his right, and one at his left. And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “He was numbered with wicked men.” 

Prophecy-Daniel 9:26- Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. As for the city and the sanctuary, the people of the coming prince will destroy them. But his end will come speedily like a flood. Until the end of the war that has been decreed there will be destruction.

Fulfillment-Matthew 26:24- And The Son of Man goes just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom The Son of Man is betrayed; it would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” 

Prophecy- Amos 8:9- In that day,” says the sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.

Fulfillment-Matthew 27:45-46 But from the sixth hour there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And toward the ninth hour Yeshua cried with a loud voice and he said, “Oh God, oh God! Why have you forsaken me?”

Prophecy- Zechariah 11:13- The Lord then said to me, “Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum at which they valued me!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the temple of the Lord.

Fulfillment-Matthew 27:9- Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the Prophet who said, “I took thirty silver coins, the price of the Precious One on which they of the children of Israel had agreed.

Prophecy- Zechariah 12:10- “I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.

Fulfillment-John 19:34- But one of the soldiers struck him on his side with his spear, and at once blood and water issued forth.

Prophecy- Zechariah 13:7- Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the Lord who rules over all. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.

Fulfillment-Mark 14:27,50- And Yeshua said to them, “All of you will be ashamed of me this night, for it is written: ‘I shall smite The Shepherd, and his lambs will be scattered.’ ….Then his disciples forsook him and they fled