PROPHESIES
In looking through both the Old and New Testament we can find in various places where the crucifixion was prophesied. In the New Testament, it was Jesus himself who foretold of events which would pass.
Old Testament
Jesus was led to Calvary or as some called it the place of skull to be crucified. (Calvary is the Latin name with Golgotha being the Aramaic name). Although there have been controversies as to the actual location of Calvary it is believed to be Gordon's Calvary. The Church of the Holy sepulcher has long been believed to be the traditional site of the crucifixion. Gordon's Calvary is the highest point in Jerusalem and if you look in Genesis, you can see where this place was prophesied was Abraham when he was tested by God to sacrifice Isaac on the top of a mountain.
(Genesis: 22) - Abraham named the place, "Yahweh-yireh." Hence even to this day people say, "On the mountain of the Lord provisiion will be made."
There were many who did not believe who Jesus said he was. Many in high places were frightened by his teachings and the large throngs of people who believed in him. Finally, he was arrested as a common criminal would be and treated with little dignity. He was mocked, verbally and physically abused prior to his execution. Jesus was the lamb, the sacrifice, the one to be crucified for our sins. Through his blood our sins are washed clean.
(Isaia 52: 13-15) - See, my servant shall prosper, he shall be raised high and greatly exalted. Even as many were amazed at him - so marred was his look beyond that of man, and his appearance beyond that of mortals - so shall be startle many nations because of him kings shall stand speechless; for those who have not been told shall see, thos who have not heard shall ponder it.
(Isaia 53: 3- 12) - He was spurned and avoidded by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, one of those from whom men hide their faces, spurned, and we hold him in no esteem. Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings the he endured, while we thought of him as stricken, as one smittent by God and afficted. But he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins; upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed. We had all gone astray like sheep, each following his own way; but the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all. Though he was harshly treated, he submitted and opened not his mouth; like a lamb led to the slaughter or a sheep before the shearers, he was silent and opened not his mouth. Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away, and who would have tought any more of his destiny? When he was cut off from the land of the living, and smitten for the sin of his people, a grave was assigned him among the wicked and a burial place with evildoers though he had done no wrong nor spoken any falsehood. But the Lord was please to crush him in infirmity. If he gives his life as an offering for sin, he shall see his descendants in a long life, and the will of the Lord shall be accomplished through him. Because of hiss affliction he shall see the light in fullness of days; through his suffering, my servant shall justify many, and their guilt he shall bear. Therefore I will give him his portion among the great, and he shall divide the spoils with the mighty, because he surrendered himself to death, and was counted among the wicked; and he shall take away the sins of many, and win paradon for their offenses.
The following verses are prophecies which point to the crucifixion. Jesus died on the cross due to man's sin, but whoever believes in Him will not die but have eternal life.
(Numbers 21:6-9) In punishment
the Lord sent among the people saraph serpents which bit the people so
that many of them dies. Then the people came to Mosses and said,
"We have sinned in complaining against the Lord and you. Pray the Lord
to take the serpents from us." So Mosses prayed for the people, and
the Lord said to Mosses, "Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if
anyone who has been bitten looks at it, he will recover." Mosses
accordinly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever
anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent he
recovered.
New Testament
(St. Matthew 16: 21-22) From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalam and suffer many things from the elders and Scribes and chief priests and be put to death, and on the third day rise again. And Peter taking him aside, began to chide him, saying; "Far be it from thee, O Lord: this will never happen to thee" He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, satan, thou art a scandal to me; for thou does not mind the things of God, but those of men."
(St. Matthew 26: 26-29) And while they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed and broke, and gave it to his disciples and said, "Take and eat; this is my body." And taking a cup he gave thanks and gave it to them, saying. "All of you drink of this; for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is being shed for many unto the forgiveness of sins. But I say to you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I shall drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father."
(St. Mark 8: 31-33) And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and Scribes and be put to death and after the third day rise again. And what he said he spoke openly. And Peter taking him aside, began to chide khim. But he, turning and seeing his disciples rebuked Peter saying, "Get behind me, satan, for thou dosi not mind the things of God, but those of men."
(St. Mark 14: 22-25) And while they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessing it, he broke and gave it to them and said, "Take; this is my body," And taking a cup and giving thanks, he have it to them, and they all drank of it and he saidd to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is being shed for many. Amen I say to you, that I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God."
(St. Luke 9:22) Saying, "The
son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief
priests and Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day rise again."
(St. Luke 17: 22-25) But he said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will long to see one day of the Son of Man, and will not see it. And they will say to you, "Behold here he is; behold, there he is. Do not go, nor follow after them. For as the lightning when it lightens flashes from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
(St. Luke 22: 14- 22) And when the hour had come, he reclined at table and the twelve apostles with him. And he said to them, "I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you that I will eat of it nor more, until it has been fulfilled in the kingdom of God." And having taken a cup, he gave thanks and said, "Take this and share it among you; for I say to you that I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God comes." And having taken bread, he gave thanks and broke, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is being given for you; do this in remembrance of me." In like manner he took also the cup after he supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which shall be shed for you. "But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. For the Son of Man indeed goes his way, as it has been determined; yet woe to that man by when he will be betrayed.
(St. John 3: 14-17) And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the dessert, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that those who believe in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting." For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that those who believe in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting. For God did not send his Son into the world in order to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
(St. John 13: 1 ) Before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that the hour had come for him to pass out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world loved them to the end. And during the supper, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come forth from God and was going to God.
(2 Corinthians 5: 21) For our
sakes he made him to be sin who knew nothing os sin, so that in him we
might become the justice of God.
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