Picturing Theology, Revised Edition

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Messianic Prophecies Cited in the New Testament Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis

NT Citation

OT Reference

Indication of the Fulfillment of the Messianic Prophecy

1

Matthew 1:23

Isaiah 7:14

The virgin birth of Jesus of Nazareth

2

Matthew 2:6

Micah 5:2

The birth of Messiah in Bethlehem

That Yahweh would call Messiah out of Egypt, the second Israel Rachel weeping over infants slain by Herod seeking to destroy Messianic seed

3

Matthew 2:15

Hosea 11:1

4

Matthew 2:18

Jeremiah 31:15

John the Baptist’s preaching fulfills the Messianic forerunner of Isaiah

5

Matthew 3:3

Isaiah 40:3

Galilean ministry of Jesus fulfills Isaiah’s prophecy of Messiah’s light to the Gentiles

6 Matthew 4:15-16

Isaiah 9:1-2

Healing ministry of Jesus fulfills Isaiah prophecy regarding Messiah’s power to exorcise and heal Jesus’s healing ministry confirms his identity as Yahweh’s anointed Messiah Jesus confirms John the Baptist’s identity as the messenger of Yahweh in Malachi Jesus’s healing ministry fulfills Isaiah’s prophecy of Messiah’s compassion for the weak As Jonah was three days and nights in the belly of the sea monster, so Jesus would be in the earth

7

Matthew 8:17

Isaiah 53:4

8 Matthew 11:14-15 Isaiah 35:5-6; 61:1

9 Matthew 11:10

Malachi 3:1

10 Matthew 12:18-21 Isaiah 42:1-4

11 Matthew 12:40

Jonah 1:17

12 Matthew 13:14-15 Isaiah 6:9-10

The spiritual dullness of Jesus’s audience

13 Matthew 13:35

Psalm 78:2

Messiah would teach in parables to the people

14 Matthew 15:8-9

Isaiah 29:13

Hypocritical nature of the audience of Jesus

Triumphal entry of Messiah the King into Jerusalem upon the foal of a donkey

15 Matthew 21:5

Zechariah 9:9

16 Matthew 21:9 Psalm 118:26-27

Hosannas to the King of Jerusalem

17 Matthew 21:16

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouth of babes Yahweh declares salvation

The Stone which the builders rejected has become the Capstone

18 Matthew 21:42

Psalm 118:22

19 Matthew 23:39

Psalm 110:1

The enthronement of Yahweh’s Lord

The Son of Man to come, of Daniel’s prophecy, is none other than Jesus of Nazareth

20 Matthew 24:30

Daniel 7:13