When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.ġ9: Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly.Ģ0: But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.Ģ1: She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."Ģ2: All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet:Ģ3: "Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel," which means, "God is with us."Ģ4: When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him he took her as his wife,Ģ5: but had no marital relations with her until she had borne a son and he named him Jesus. In order:ġ8: Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. The Gospel of Matthew has the largest number of messianic quotations from the Old Testament. Matthew contains all Mark's quotations and introduces around 30 more, sometimes in the mouth of Jesus, sometimes as his own commentary on the narrative, and Luke makes allusions to all but three of the Old Testament books. There are 27 direct quotations in the Gospel of Mark, 54 in Matthew, 24 in Luke, and 14 in John, and the influence of the scriptures is vastly increased when allusions and echoes are included, with half of Mark's gospel being made up of allusions to and citations of the scriptures. The Hebrew scriptures were an important source for the New Testament authors. Overview: prophecy and biblical scholarship The story of Jesus' death, therefore, involved a profound shift in meaning from the Old Testament tradition. No view of the Messiah as based on the Old Testament predicted a Messiah who would suffer and die for the sins of all people. Historical criticism has been agreed to be a field that is unable to argue for the evidential fulfillment of prophecy, or that Jesus was indeed the Messiah because he fulfilled messianic prophecies, as it cannot "construct such an argument" within that academic method, since it is a theological claim. Old Testament prophecies that were regarded as referring to the arrival of Christ are either not thought to be prophecies by biblical scholars, as the verses make no stated claim of being predictions, or are seen as having no correlation as they do not explicitly refer to the Messiah. Jews do not regard any of these as having been fulfilled by Jesus, and in some cases do not regard them as messianic prophecies at all. Scholars have observed that few of these citations are actual predictions in context the majority of these quotations and references are taken from the prophetic Book of Isaiah, but they range over the entire corpus of Jewish writings. The books of the New Testament frequently cite Jewish scripture to support the claim of the Early Christians that Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah. Jewish scripture quoted to support the claim that Jesus is the Jewish messiah
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