30 Prophecies Concerning Jesus' Death - Irrefutable Proof Of Bible Accuracy And The One True God

30 Prophecies Concerning Jesus' Death - Irrefutable Proof Of Bible Accuracy And The One True God

You know, muslims see our many versions of the bible, and is it any wonder they find discrepancies between versions! So how does one prove irrefutably that the bible is accurate concerning Jesus, that He is not merely a prophet, but the holy Son of God, the Redeemer and Savior made flesh? The only Emmanuel? Do you think 30 prophecies of the Old Testament would do it?

"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel." (Gen. 3:15) The interpretation is that Christ will give Satan's head a death blow because of His sacrifice at the cross, while Satan bruises His heel in that he causes Christ to have to suffer.

"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Psa. 22:1)

"O my God, I cry in the daytime, but Thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent." (Psa. 22:2) This verse in Psalms from David predicts the 3 hours of darkness attested of in Matt. 27:45. David listed these two verses of Psa. 22 in the invert order of how it actually happened, but indeed, when the night season of 3 hours came upon Jesus' crucifixion, He was not silent in that He cried out the partial wording of Psa. 22:1!

"But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people." (Psa. 22:6) Jesus was indeed despised by the unbelieving people who crucified Him!

"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...They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion." (Psa. 22:7 - 8,13) Matt. 27:43 is restated strikingly similar to what David said so long before they came to be in the situation that they need say it. What were the chances that it would come to pass this way at this moment, except the Bible truly be the word of God?

"I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels...For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet." (Psa. 22:14, 16) Amazing that David puts these words in the bible, since crucifixion is not known until Roman times, and David did not experience piercing of his hands and feet in his time, yet he wrote this in pure prophecy of Christ's ordeal!

"I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me." (Psa. 22:17) "In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof." (Exod. 12:46) "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken." (Psa. 34:20) The key point here is that in all 3 verses of the Old Testament, they refer to the fact none of Jesus' bones were broken during the crucifixion, and particularly accurate was the fact the Romans normally broke the leg bones to hasten death, but because Jesus died so quickly, it was not ordered by those in authority.

"They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture." (Psa. 22:18) Here again, David prophesies about the day of Jesus' crucifixion, because in Matt. 27:35, it says that those who crucified Jesus did exactly that!

"Into thine hand I commit my spirit." (Psa. 31:5) As many of us know, Jesus repeated this.

"False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not." (Psa. 35:11) Mark 14:56 says this is exactly what happened to Jesus, just as prophesied by David!

"My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off." (Psa. 38:11) Luke 23:49 records this same scenery at the crucifixion of Jesus!

"Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me." (Psa. 41:9) Mark 14:10 and John 13:18 - 19 both record that Judas, hand picked by Jesus Himself, does indeed betray Him, the verses in John being the very words of Jesus Himself restating the words of David.

"I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God." (Psa. 69:3) In John 19:28 Jesus says "I thirst." Again, David prophesies of the thirst Jesus feels on the cross.

"Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee." (Psa. 69:19) Now fast forward to Jesus’ passion; "And they stripped Him, and put on Him a scarlet robe. 　And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon His head, and a reed in His right hand: and they bowed the knee before Him, and mocked Him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ 　And they spit upon Him, and took the reed, and smote Him on the head." (Matt. 27:28 - 30) The harsh and mocking treatment Jesus received surely is indicative of the fact these people are Jesus’ enemies, and the dishonor He received at their hands with all this mocking of His sovereign person is a huge sacrilege and blasphemous treatment of the Son of God! Imagine yourself in His place, being treated like this, then being taken away to be crucified, spit drying on your face as you’re led through the crowds. Now THAT’S shame and reproach in the public eye!

"They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." (Psa. 69:21) "Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to His mouth." (John 19:29) Here is another prophecy fulfilled from David’s Psalms. Concerning Jesus’ passion and crucifixion, Is it any wonder why Bible scholars see the book of Psalms as a very important book in the Bible?

"I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads." (Psa. 109:25) "And they that passed by reviled Him, wagging their heads" (Matt. 27:39) "And they that passed by railed on Him, wagging their heads, and saying, ‘Ah, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save Thyself, and come down from the cross." (Mark 15:29 - 30) Shaking and wagging the head is the same thing, right? Amazing how David prophesied so vividly of the scene of that day so long after he died, isn’t it? Okay, we’re going to leave the Psalms and move forward in the Old Testament for more prophecy of Jesus’ death…

"And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself:" (Dan. 9:26) "Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. 　And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; And not for that nation only, but that also He should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad." (John 11:50 - 52) The Messiah was indeed cut off, and not only for the nation of the Jews…are you thinking John 3:16? Let’s now look at 10 prophecies of Jesus from Isaiah…

"I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." (Isa. 50:6) Remember Matt. 27:30 that I wrote of earlier here, where it spoke of Him being spit upon, and how they smote His face, and how they shamed Him by their treatment of Him? Here it is again in prophecy!

"As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:" (Isa. 52:14) Pilate's men mistreated Jesus so badly, He could hardly be recognized! "Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto Him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped Him, and put on Him a scarlet robe. And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon His head, and a reed in His right hand: and they bowed the knee before Him, and mocked Him, saying, 'Hail, King of the Jews!' And they spit upon Him, and took the reed, and smote Him on the head." (Matt. 27:27 - 30) As Isaiah said of Him, so it was!

"Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not." (Isa. 53:1 - 3) "And they that passed by railed on Him, wagging their heads, and saying, 'Ah, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, Save Thyself, and come down from the cross.' Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, 'He saved others; Himself He cannot save. Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe.' And they that were crucified with Him reviled Him." (Mark 15:29 - 32) What a comparative prophecy of what happened concerning Jesus. His own people indeed esteemed Him not at all!

"Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all." (Isa. 53:4 - 6) "Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (1 Pet. 2:24) "And it was the third hour, and they crucified Him." (Mark 15:25) Here we have the prophecy (Isa. 53:4 - 6), It takes place (Mark 15:25), and it is given recognition by Peter (1Pet. 2:24)! He was crucified for our sins, and also He was an offering for our sins. "For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Cor. 5:21) Because of the fact He took our place, and made Himself an offering, a perfect Lamb, without blemish, His sacrifice was accepted by the Father for all mankind, with the condition that we believe in Jesus and accept Him as our Savior and Redeemer.

"He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth." (Isa. 53:7) "Then said Pilate unto Him, 'Hearest Thou not how many things they witness against Thee?' And He answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly." (Matt. 27:13 - 14) Again we find matching prophecy and fruition of it! "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 'Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.'" (John 1:29) This too ties in with Isaiah's verse, because Jesus was as a lamb to the slaughter, but more specifically, He was God's sacrificial Lamb, given for slaughter to save mankind from all our sinfulness!

"And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth." (Isa. 53:9) "Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children. 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." (Matt. 27:56 - 60) Isaiah began his prophetic ministry in 740 B.C., and here is one more of his prophecies come true! What other religion has so many prophecies that have been fulfilled as the Christian Bible? Let the skeptics rage in unbelief, there's still more prophecies of His death to be made mention of!

"Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He hath poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." (Isa. 53:12) "Then said Jesus, 'Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.' And they parted His raiment, and cast lots." (Luke 23:34) "And with Him they crucify two thieves; the one on His right hand, and the other on His left. And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, 'And He was numbered with the transgressors.'" (Mark 15:27 - 28) This is the last of Isaiah's prophecies of Jesus' death, but we have one more prophet with 4 more prophecies of it. In all, we have Moses, David, Daniel, Isaiah, and Zechariah, these 5 have prophecied of Jesus death, and the circumstances thereof. Many have accused the Bible of being corrupt; CORRUPT THIS! So much fulfillment of prophecy, and what other religion has its main book proving itself in so many ways through prophecy fulfilled in the present from its past? Who can twist this perfect group of prophecies, that it not be what it is, an irrefutable work of God; the word of God, indeed!

"And I said unto them, 'If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear.' So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver." (Zech. 11:12) "And said unto them, 'What will ye give me, and I will deliver Him unto you?' And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver." (Matt. 26:15) Zechariah began prophesying 520 years before Christ was born. Over 500 years before the event, Zechariah predicted the amount of money to the exact coin! Oh, who else has a faith with a book with so much precision in its prophecy? And there's more!

"And the LORD said unto me, 'Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them.' And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD." (Zech. 11:13) "Then Judas, which had betrayed Him, when he saw that He was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, 'I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.' And they said, 'What is that to us? See thou to that.' And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, 'It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.' And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in." (Matt. 27:3 - 7) More precision from Zechariah; in the temple, the house of the Lord, over 500 years later, Judas indeed cast the silver down, and it was used to buy a potter's field, the very inference of Zechariah's prophecy!

"And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." (Zech. 12:10) "And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented Him." (Luke 23:27) One more verse from Zechariah, and fulfillment written thereof in Matthew and Mark's gospels!

"'Awake, O sword, against My shepherd, and against the man that is My fellow', saith the LORD of hosts: 'Smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn Mine hand upon the little ones.'" (Zech. 13:7) "Then saith Jesus unto them, 'All ye shall be offended because of Me this night: for it is written, 'I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.'" (Matt. 26:31) "And Jesus saith unto them, 'All ye shall be offended because of Me this night: for it is written, 'I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered'...And they all forsook Him, and fled." (Mark 14:47, 50) True to the words of these 5 Old Testament men of God, Jesus' death was described in great detail, from circumstances to even fine details such as the amount of money bargained for Jesus' betrayal! What accuracy! Let whosoever will, doubt out of stiffnecked foolishness, but for we who believe; what a masterpiece of God!