- The reaction of the onlookers at the crucifixion.
PROPHECY: All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. Psalm 22:7,8.
FULFILMENT: And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, Matthew 27:39
He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God. Matthew 27:43
- The manner of His death.
PROPHECY: For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Psalm 22:16
FULFILMENT: And they crucified Him. Matthew 27:35
- Vinegar offered Him to drink.
PROPHECY: They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Psalm 69:21
FULFILMENT: They gave Him vinegar to drink mingled with gall, and when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink. Matthew 27:34
- Criminals executed with Him.
PROPHECY: He was numbered with the transgressors. Isaiah 53:12
FULFILMENT: And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the malefactors, one on the right and the other on the left. Luke 23:33
- That which happened to His clothing.
PROPHECY: They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. Psalm 22:18
And when they had crucified them, they parted His garments casting lots upon them what every man should take. Mark 15:24
FULFILMENT: Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. John 19:23,24
- He would have a rich man’s grave.
PROPHECY: He made His grave … with the rich in His death. Isaiah 53:9
FULFILMENT: When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. Matthew 27:57-60
Q9 What is the purpose of Bible prophecy?
Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he. John 13:19
Q10 In his day what was Noah to prepare for?
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood … and behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters to destroy all flesh .. And everything that is in the earth shall die. Genesis 6:13-17. |
