Twenty-Six Predictions

“Things were written aforetime … for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” (Romans 15:4).

(1) Psalm 41:9 / Mark 14:10 Betrayal of Judas
(2) Zechariah 11:12 / Matthew 26:15 Sold for thirty pieces of silver
(3) Zechariah 13:7 / Mark 14:50 Shepherd is smitten
(4) Isaiah 63:3 / Mark 14:40 Trod winepress alone
(5) Psalm 35:11 / Mark 14:55-61 False witnesses
(6) Zechariah 11:13 / Matthew 27:3-7 Purchase of Potter’s field for 30 pieces of silver
(7) Isaiah 53:7 / Matthew 27:12-14 Jesus as a lamb led to the slaughter
(8) Psalm 69:20 / Luke 22:61 Jesus without comforters
(9) Isaiah 50:6 / Matthew 27:26, 30 Stripes on the back
(10) Psalm 22:16 / Matthew 27:27 Surrounded by “dogs”
(11) Psalm 69:19 / Matthew 27:28, 29 Reproached, dishonored, mocked
(12) Psalm 22:15 / Matthew 27:32 No strength to carry the cross
(13) Psalm 69:21 / Matthew 27:34 Vinegar to drink
(14) Psalm 22:16 / Matthew 27:35 Pierced hands and feet
(15) Isaiah 53:12 / Luke 23:32-33 Killed with criminals
(16) Psalm 22:18 / John 19:23-24 Garments stolen and gambled away
(17) Psalm 22:7 / Matthew 27:39-40 Reproach, heads shaken
(18) Psalm 22:13, 17 / Luke 23:35 Stared at angrily
(19) Psalm 22:7-8 / Matthew 27:43 Believed God would deliver him
(20) Amos 8:9 / Matthew 27:45 Darkness
(21) Psalm 22:1 / Matthew 27:46 Forsaken
(22) Psalm 34:20 / John 19:33, 36 Bones not broken
(23) Psalm 22:14 / John 19:34 Heart broken
(24) Daniel 9:26, 27 / John 11:50-52 Cut off in midst of week
(25) Isaiah 53:10 / John 1:29 Offering for sin
(26) Isaiah 53:9 / Matthew 27:57-60 Grave with the rich

The resurrection of Jesus to the divine nature had been unique in the history of perhaps a billion people who had ever lived to that time. Even including one brought back to life through Elijah and two through Elisha, only four people in a billion (yet only one to the divine nature) (1 Kings 17:17- 24, 2 Kings 4:32-37, 13:20-21). But the voluntary sacrifice of Jesus Christ is to result in bringing back to life the billions who have ever lived.