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Jesus alluded to other passages besides Isaiah 35 (which speaks of the blind, the deaf, the lame, and the mute). Isaiah 26:19 says, “Your dead shall live”; Isaiah 29:18 also refers to the healing of the deaf and the blind; while Isaiah 61:1 speaks of bringing good news to the poor (quoted by Jesus in the synagogue of Nazareth (Luke 4:18–19).
The New Testament, therefore, consistently depicts Jesus as a descendant of David (for an apparent exception, see the article on Psalm 110:1–4). The two genealogies in Matthew and Luke, however, differ from one another and this has led to questions as to whether the two gospels contradict one another. Matthew begins with Abraham and ends with ...
The Messiah Would Be the Rejected Cornerstone. “Everyone who falls on that stone will be shattered, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”. In Matthew 21, Jesus has just told a parable: the owner of a vineyard sent some servants to collect the produce from the tenants. But the tenants beat and killed the servants.
Jesus’ References to Old Testament Scriptures. For Jesus, the Tanakh was the story he and his people lived in. In my traditional Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn, our family comfortably referred to our Scriptures as “the Old Testament”, although many other Jewish people prefer to call it the “Hebrew Bible” or the “ Tanakh.”.
Matthew’s Gospel cites many Old Testament prophets about the Messiah, but only in 2:23 does he use the plural “prophets” as opposed to a particular prophet: “And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.”. Moreover, whereas in other ...
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The Messiah Would Be Betrayed for Thirty Pieces of Silver. Thirty pieces of silver was the price of a slave. by Jews for Jesus | January 01 2018. Reference: Zechariah 11:12–13. Fulfillment: Matthew 26:14–15, Matthew 27:3, Matthew 27:9–10. Zechariah 11 concerns false shepherds (leaders) of Israel. In an acted parable, Zechariah himself ...
The Messiah Would Be a Light for the Nations of the World. Jesus is God’s servant, humbly going “undercover” in his role as Messiah. by Jews for Jesus | January 01 2018. Reference: Isaiah 42:1–7. Fulfillment: Matthew 12:15-21; Luke 2:27–32; John 8:12; Revelation 21:23–24. Isaiah 42:1–7 is the second of four passages in Isaiah that ...
Daniel 9. Did the Jews Understand the ‘Weeks’ of Daniel to Refer to ‘Years’? The (Jewish) writers of the New Testament asserted that the Old Testament spoke of a coming Messiah and quoted from it extensively to prove their point. Even Jesus himself – whom many Jewish people will declare to be a good rabbi and teacher – said to those ...
The Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah ...”. The birthplace of the Messiah seemed to be a lively topic of discussion among the Jewish people who we encounter in the New Testament. Because Jesus’ formative years were spent in Nazareth, a city in the region ...