And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39 You study[c] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life. John 5:37-40 NIV
In other words, Jesus claimed that his life and career was predicted and prophesied by the Old Testament books written by the Hebrew prophets that preceded him by hundreds of years. These prophets had claimed that God inspired their writings. Since no human mind can predict in such detail hundreds of years into the future, this became a line of evidence that Jesus said his contemporaries could use to verify if indeed Jesus came as part of a Divine Plan or if the whole gospel account was the product of some elaborate human scheme. Two thousand years later, the data that Jesus referred to is still available for us to examine and consider for ourselves.
Please study the following Prophecies; Messiah was to be born of a virgin Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 1:18-25 Luke 1:26-38 3. Messiah was to be a prophet like Moses Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19 John 7:40 4. Messiah was to enter Jerusalem in triumph Zechariah 9:9 Matthew 21:1-9 John 12:12-16
Tyndale. Life Application Study Bible NIV (Kindle Locations 148976-148983). Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
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