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The Bible contains
many prophecies concerning a coming Messiah who would
bring salvation to Israel. The Messiah would be born of
a virgin in Bethlehem. That He would be a prophet like
Moses. That He would come 483 years after the rebuilding
of the wall of Jerusalem. That He would have YHWH, God’s
own Name applied to Him. That He would be the Son of
God. That He would enter into Jerusalem publicly, riding
a donkey. That He would be betrayed by a friend for
thirty pieces of silver. That He would be forsaken by
His disciples. That He would be rejected by the Jewish
Religious Leaders. That He would be struck on the cheek,
spat on, mocked and brutally beaten. That He would be
executed by crucifixion which the Jews did not practice.
That He would die without having a single bone broken.
That His death would make atonement for the sins of
mankind.
DEFINITIONS
Messiah: Hebrew
-“Mashiah” Greek -“Christos”, meaning “Anointed One”.
Atonement: Meaning “reconciliation” or being made
“at-one-ment with God”.
Crucifixion: This
punishment began by subjecting the sufferer to a
horrible beating. After this scourging, the person was
nailed to a cross or stake and left to slowly die. It
was unanimously considered the most horrible form of
death. Among the Romans the degradation was also a part
of the infliction, and the punishment if applied to
freemen was only used in the case of the vilest
criminal The one to be crucified was stripped naked
of all his clothes, and then followed the most awful
moment of all. He was laid down upon the implement of
torture. His arms were stretched along the cross-beams,
and at the wrist or hand the point of a huge iron nail
was placed, which, by the blow of a mallet, was driven
home into the wood. Then through either foot separately,
or through both together, as they were placed one over
the other, another huge nail tore its way through the
quivering flesh.
The unnatural position made every movement painful;
the lacerated veins and crushed tendons throbbed with
incessant anguish; the wounds, inflamed by exposure,
gradually gangrened; the arteries, especially of the
head and stomach, became swollen and oppressed with
surcharged blood; and, while each variety of misery went
on gradually increasing, there was added to them the
intolerable pang of a burning and raging thirst. Bible
Translation: NASV
PROPHETIC FACTS
PERTAINING TO MESSIAH
1. Who was the “Seed of woman that would bruise the
serpent’s heel”?
Genesis 3:15 / Galatians 4:4 / 1 John 3:8
Answer_______________
2. Was the Messiah to come from the seed of Abraham?
Genesis 12:3 / Matthew 1:1 / Acts 3:25 / Acts 18:18,
22:18 / Galatians 3:16
Answer_______________
3. Was the Messiah to be of the seed of Isaac?
Genesis 28:14, 21:12 / Matthew 1:2 / Luke 3:34 / Hebrews
11:17-19
Answer_______________
4. Did the Prophecies foretell that the Messiah would be
a descendant of Judah?
Genesis 49:10 / Matthew 1:2-3 / Luke 3:33 / Hebrews 7:14
Answer_______________
5. The Messiah would be heir to whose throne?
2 Samuel 7:12-13 / Isaiah 9:6-7. 11:1-5 / Jeremiah 23:5
/ Matthew 1:1-6 / Acts 11:23 / Romans 1:4
Answer_______________
6. Who would be called the “Son of God”?
Psalm 2:7 / Proverbs 30:4 / Matthew 3:17 / Luke 1:32
Answer_______________
7. Who would have God’s own Name, YHWH applied to Him?
Isaiah 9:5-7 / Jeremiah 23:5-6 / Romans 10:9 /
Philippians 2:9-11
Answer_______________
8. Messiah would come 483 years after the rebuilding of
what?
Daniel 9:24-26 / Matthew 2:1, 16-19 / Luke 3:1, 23
Answer_______________
9. The Messiah was prophesied to be born in what city?
Micah 5:1-2 / Matthew 2:1 / Luke 2:2-7
Answer_______________
10. Was the Messiah to have a virgin birth?
Isaiah 7:14 / Matthew 1:18, 2:1 / Luke 1:26-35
Answer_______________
11. Messiah was to be proceeded by one who would
announce Him. Who was that man?
Isaiah 40:3-5 / Matthew 3:1-3 / Luke 1:17, 3:2-6
Answer_______________
12. Messiah would be a prophet like Moses?
Deuteronomy 18:15-18 / Acts 3;20-22
Answer_______________
13. Would Messiah have a healing ministry?
Isaiah 35:5-6, 42:18 / Matthew 11:5
Answer_______________
14. Would Messiah’s ministry come from Galilee?
Isaiah 8:23, 9:1 / Matthew 4:12-16
Answer_______________
15. Messiah was prophesied to enter what city riding a
donkey?
Zechariah 9:9 / Matthew 21:1-11 / Mark 11:1-11
Answer_______________
16. Was Messiah prophesied to enter the Temple with
authority?
Haggai 2:7-9 / Malachi 3:1 / Matthew 21: 12-24 / Luke
2:27-38, 45-50 / John 2:13-22
Answer_______________
17. Messiah would be undesired and rejected by whom?
Psalm 69:8-9 / Isaiah 53:2, 63:3 / Mark 6:3 / Luke 9:58
/ John 1:11, 7:3-5
Answer_______________
18. Would the Jewish Religious Establishment receive
Jesus as Messiah?
Psalm 118:22 / Matthew 21:42 / John 7:48
Answer_______________
19. Who would be plotted against by Jews and Gentiles
together?
Psalm 2:1-2 / Acts 4:27
Answer_______________
20. Messiah would be betrayed by a friend. What was his
name?
Psalm 41:9 / Matthew 26:21-50 /John 13:18-21 / Acts
1:16-18
Answer_______________
21. What payment did His betrayer receive?
Zechariah 11:12 / Matthew 26:15
Answer_______________
22. According to the prophet, where would His betrayer
be buried?
Zechariah 11:13 / Matthew 27:7
Answer_______________
23. Messiah would be forsaken by whom?
Zechariah 13:7 / Matthew 26:31-56
Answer_______________
24. Would Messiah be struck on the cheek?
Micah 4:15, 5:1 / Matthew 27:30
Answer_______________
25. Would Messiah be spat upon?
Isaiah 50:6 / Matthew 26:67, 27:30
Answer_______________
26. Would Messiah be mocked as He was crucified?
Psalm 22:8-9 / Matthew 27:31, 39-44 , 67-68
Answer_______________
27. Would Messiah be brutally beaten?
Isaiah 50:6 / Matthew 26:67, 27:30
Answer_______________
28. How was Messiah prophesied to be executed?
Psalm 22:16-17 / Zechariah 12:10 / Maltthew 27:35 / Luke
24:39 / John 9:18, 34-37, 20:35 / Revelation 1:7
Answer_______________
29. Would Messiah suffer terrible thirst on the cross?
Psalm 22:15-16 / John 19:28
Answer_______________
30. It was prophesied that He would refuse to drink
what. .?
Psalm 69:21-22 / Matthew 27:34
Answer_______________
31. Was it prophesied that Messiah would not sustain a
broken bone?
Exodus 12:46 / Psalm 24:31 / John 19:33-36
Answer_______________
32. Would the promised Messiah be considered a
transgressor?
Isaiah 53:12 / Matthew 27:38
Answer_______________
33. Messiah’s death would atone for the sins of who?
Isaiah 52:5-7 / Mark 10:45 / John 1:29, 3:16 / Acts
8:30-35
Answer_______________
34. Messiah was to be buried with the rich?
Isaiah 53:9 / Matthew 27:57-60
Answer_______________
35. According to prophecy, Messiah would be raised from
the dead?
Psalm 2:7, 16:10 / Isaiah 53:9-10 / Matthew 28:1-20 /
Acts 2:23-36 / Acts 13:33-37 / 1 Corinthians 15:4-6
Answer_______________
36. Messiah would ultimately ascend to the right hand of
God?
Psalm 16:11, 68:18-19 / Psalm 110:1 / Luke 24:51 / Acts
1:9-11, 7:55 / Hebrews 1:3
Answer_______________
37. Was Messiah to hold a Priestly Office? Zechariah 6:1
/ Romans 8:34 / Hebrews 7:25, 8:2
Answer_______________
38. Messiah was prophesied to exercise His Priestly
Office not only on earth but in _____?
Zechariah 6:1 / Romans 8:34 / Hebrews 7:25, 8:2
Answer_______________
39. Messiah would be sought after by _________ as well
as Jews?
Isaiah 11:11 / Isaiah 42:1 / Acts 10:45
Answer_______________
40. Would Messiah later be accepted by the Gentiles?
Isaiah 11:10, 42, 49:1-12 / Matthew 12:21 / Romans 15:1
Answer_______________
CONCLUSION: According to
Bible prophecy, who was the
Messiah?_____________________
40 prophecies pertaining
to the promised Messiah
40 is the number of trial
and testing
The cumulative probability of all these prophecies
randomly coming true in one person would be about three
times the number considered impossible. It would be the
equivalent of winning about 15 lotteries in a row! All
these prophecies and more were fulfilled in the person
Jesus.
Truly the prophecies made about Jesus in the Old
Testament alone verify His divinity because they verify
the Bible’s claims about Him, and His claims about
Himself. We see also that the prophecies spoken in
advance proclaim that the Bible was inspired directly by
God. The Word of God is true and the Bible is His
written Word to us.
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