Review of Evidences

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Review of Evidences

• Why study?
• 2 types of evidence.
• God is!
• Cause/Effect
• Design
• Moral
• Is there a God?

• Jesus Christ
• Virgin Birth
• Prophecies
• Unnatural sayings and deeds.
• Miracles
• Resurrection
• Empty Tomb, Monuments Sauls Conversion

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The Bibles Inspiration

• Review
• If there is a God, ..
• Two Types of Revelation
• General
• Special
• Contents of the Bible
• Known Facts
• Revelation

• 1st Test of Inspiration
• What is inspiration
• Various Theories

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The Unity of the Bible

• Inexplicable on purely human terms.
• 40men

• Every walk of life
• Nehemiah, Peter, Luke, Matthew, Soloman, Moses,
  Paul
• From almost every human condition.
• David, Paul
• 3 Languages
• 2 Continents
• Diverse Topics

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What Might One Expect?

• Suppose we assembled 40 contemporary scholars to
  write a piece on the causes of WWII?
• Mishmash
• Errors, inconsistencies, incongruities

• Bible Writers
• Not contemporaries
• Worked independently
• Not highly trained (field)

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The Unity of the Bible

• But the impartial mind cannot ignore the
  fact that in the writings which constitute our
  Bible there is a unity and progression, a guiding
  purpose, culminating in Jesus Christ and His
  redemption, a fullness and power of religious
  truth, which place them in a category, and
  compel the acknowledgement, of a unique origin
  answering to their unique character (1969, pp.
  12-12).

• Genesis Revelation
• Genesis
• Exodus-Deuteronomy
• Historical Books
• Messiah Prophecies
• Gospel Writers
• Acts
• Revelation

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Factual Accuracy of the Bible

• Moses wrote Pentateuch
•  Nehemiah 131 On that day they read from the
  Book of Moses in the hearing of the people, and
  in it was found written that no Ammonite or
  Moabite should ever come into the assembly of
  God,  
• Exodus 1714 Then the Lord said to Moses, Write
  this for a memorial in the book and recount it in
  the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot
  out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
   
• John 546 For if you believed Moses, you would
  believe Me for he wrote about Me.
•  Mark 1226 But concerning the dead, that they
  rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in
  the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him,
  saying, I am the God of Abraham, the God of
  Isaac, and the God of Jacob ?

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Factual Accuracy of the Bible

• Bible critics-Art of writing not developed until
  after his death (1451BC).
• Laws too advanced.
• Plethora of archaeological discoveries.
• Code of Hammurabi
• (2000-1700BC)

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Factual Accuracy of the Bible

• The code of Hammurabi is significant in that it
  is the most comprehensive and well preserved law
  code of ancient history apart from the Biblical
  law. As well it indicates to us that the writing
  of the Mosaic laws in a legible script at an
  early date is not unreasonable and corresponds
  harmoniously with ancient practices.

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Factual Accuracy of the Bible

• Isaiah made mistake when he wrote Isa. 201.
• In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when
  Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he
  fought against Ashdod and took it..

• Sargons Palace 1843
• _at_Khorsabad

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Factual Accuracy of the Bible

• Hittites mentioned over 40 times.
• Exodus 2328 And I will send hornets before you,
  which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite,
  and the Hittite from before you.

• 10,000 clay tablets with societys law system.
• Late 1800s in Turkey

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Factual Accuracy of the Bible

• In Acts, Luke mentions thirty-two countries,
  fifty-four cities, and nine Mediterranean
  islands. He also mentions ninety-five persons,
  sixty-two of which are not named elsewhere in
  the New Testament. And his references, where
  checkable, are always correct. This is truly
  remarkable, in view of the fact that the
  political/territorial situation of his day was in
  a state of almost constant change. Only
  inspiration can account for Luke.s precision.

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Factual Accuracy of the Bible

• Over thirty names (emperors, high priests,
  Roman governors, princes, etc.) are mentioned
  in the New Testament, and all but a handful have
  been verified. In every way the Bible accounts
  have been found ac-curate (though vigorously
  challenged). In no single case does the Bible let
  us down in geographical accuracy. Without one
  mistake, the Bible lists around forty-five
  countries. Each is accurately placed and
  named. About the same number of cities are named
  and no one mistake can be listed. Further, about
  thirty-six towns are mentioned, and most
  have been identified. Wherever accuracy can
  be checked, minute detail has been found correct
  every time!

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Factual Accuracy of the Bible

• Contrivance or
• Consistent?

• In 1790, William Paley, the celebrated
  Anglican scholar, authored his famous volume,
  Horae Paulinae (Hours with Paul). In this
  remarkable book, Paley demonstrated an amazing
  array of undesigned coincidences between the book
  of Acts and the epistles of Paul, which argue for
  the credibility of the Christian revelation.
  These coincidences, said Paley, which are
  often incorporated or intertwined in references
  and allusions, in which no art can be discovered,
  and no contrivance traced, furnish numerous
  proofs of the truth of both these works, and
  consequently that of Christianity.

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Factual Accuracy of the Bible

• Acts 2820 For this reason therefore I have
  called for you, to see you and speak with you,
  because for the hope of Israel I am bound with
  this chain.  
• Ephesians 620 for which I am an ambassador in
  chains that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought
  to speak.  
• Philippians 17 just as it is right for me to
  think this of you all, because I have you in my
  heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the
  defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all
  are partakers with me of grace.  
• Colossians 43 meanwhile praying also for us,
  that God would open to us a door for the word, to
  speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also
  in chains,  
• Philemon 13 whom I wished to keep with me, that
  on your behalf he might minister to me in my
  chains for the gospel.

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Factual Accuracy of the Bible

•  2 Timothy 315 and that from childhood you have
  known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make
  you wise for salvation through faith which is in
  Christ Jesus
• Acts 161 Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. And
  behold, a certain disciple was there, named
  Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who
  believed, but his father was Greek.
•  2 Timothy 15 when I call to remembrance the
  genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first
  in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice,
  and I am persuaded is in you also.

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Factual Accuracy of the Bible

• Mark 639 Then He commanded them to make them all
  sit down in groups on the green grass.
• John 64 Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews,
  was near.
• John 1939And Nicodemus, who at first came to
  Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of
  myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
• Genesis 3725 And they sat down to eat a meal.
  Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there
  was a company of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead
  with their camels, bearing spices, balm, and
  myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt

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To Conclude

• The Bible critic is likely to trivialize these
  examples as they are isolated from one another.
  When, however, literally hundreds and hundreds of
  these incidental details are observed to
  perfectly mesh, one begins to suspect that what
  have been called undesigned coincidences (from
  the human vantage point) become very obvious
  cases of divinely designed harmony-tiny
  footprints that lead only to the conclusion that
  God was the guiding Force behind the composition
  of the Sacred Scriptures.

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The Prophecy of the Bible

• What is prophecy?
• Predictive prophecy is the highest evidence of
  divine revelation. The one thing that mortal man
  cannot do is to know and report future events in
  the absence of a train of circumstances that
  naturally suggest certain possibilities.
• A miracle of knowledge, a declaration or
  representation of something future, beyond the
  power of human sagacity to discern or to
  calculate.
• The Bible contains prophecies about individuals,
  lands, nations, and the Messiah.

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The Bible Confirms

• But the prophet, that shall speak a word
  presumptuously in my name, which I have not
  commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in
  the name of other gods, that same prophet shall
  die. And if thou say in thy heart, How shall
  we know the word which Jehovah hath not
  spoken? when a prophet speaketh in the name
  of Jehovah, if the thing follow not, nor come to
  pass, that is the thing which Jehovah hath not
  spoken the prophet hath spoken it
  presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him
  (Deuteronomy 1820-22).

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Valid Prophecy

• First, it must be a specific detailed
  declaration, as opposed to being nebulous, vague,
  or general in nature.
• Second, there must be a sufficient amount of time
  between the prophetic statement and its
  fulfillment.
• Third, the prophecy must be stated in
  clear, understandable terms.
• Fourth, the prophecy must not have historical
  overtones.

• Two questions
• (1) Does the Bible employ predictive prophecy?
• (2) If it does, can the predictive prophecy be
  proven true?
• Yes, Yes

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Prophecy Concerning Tyre

• Eze.261 And it came to pass in the eleventh
  year, on the first day of the month, that the
  word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of
  man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem,
  Aha! She is broken who was the gateway of the
  peoples now she is turned over to me I shall be
  filled she is laid waste. 3 Therefore thus
  says the Lord God Behold, I am against you, O
  Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up
  against you, as the sea causes its waves to come
  up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre
  and break down her towers I will also scrape her
  dust from her, and make her like the top of a
  rock. 5 It shall be a place for spreading nets in
  the midst of the sea, for I have spoken, says
  the Lord God it shall become plunder for the
  nations. 6 Also her daughter villages which are
  in the fields shall be slain by the sword. Then
  they shall know that I am the Lord. 7 For thus
  says the Lord God Behold, I will bring against
  Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of
  Babylon, king of kings, with horses, with
  chariots, and with horsemen, and an army with
  many people.

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Prophecy Concerning Tyre

• 8 He will slay with the sword your daughter
  villages in the fields he will heap up a siege
  mound against you, build a wall against you, and
  raise a defense against you. 9 He will direct his
  battering rams against your walls, and with his
  axes he will break down your towers. 10 Because
  of the abundance of his horses, their dust will
  cover you your walls will shake at the noise of
  the horsemen, the wagons, and the chariots, when
  he enters your gates, as men enter a city that
  has been breached. 11 With the hooves of his
  horses he will trample all your streets he will
  slay your people by the sword, and your strong
  pillars will fall to the ground. 12 They will
  plunder your riches and pillage your merchandise
  they will break down your walls and destroy your
  pleasant houses they will lay your stones, your
  timber, and your soil in the midst of the water.
  13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs,
  and the sound of your harps shall be heard no
  more. 14 I will make you like the top of a rock
  you shall be a place for spreading nets, and you
  shall never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have
  spoken, says the Lord God.

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Prophecy Concerning Tyre

• Ezekiel predicted that Nebuchadnezzar, king
  of Babylon, would destroy the city (Ezekiel
  267-8).
• Many nations were to come up against Tyre
  (263).
• The city would be leveled and scraped clean
  like a bare rock (264).
• The citys stones, timbers, and soil would
  be cast into the sea (2612).
• The surrounding area would become a place for the
  spreading of fishermens nets (265).
• And, finally, the city never would be rebuilt to
  its former glory (2614).

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History Tells Us!

• History records that each of these predictions
  came true. Tyre, a coastal city from ancient
  times, had a somewhat unusual arrangement. In
  addition to the inland city, there was an island
  about three-fourths of a mile offshore.
  Nebuchadnezzar besieged the mainland city in 586
  B.C., but when he finally was able to inhabit the
  city in about 573 B.C., his victory was hollow.
  Unbeknownst to him, the inhabitants had vacated
  the city and moved to the island.a situation that
  remained virtually unchanged for the next 241
  years. Then, in 332 B.C., Alexander the Great
  conquered the city, but not with ease. To get to
  the island, he literally had his army scrape
  clean the inland city of its debris, and
  he then used those materials (stones, timbers,
  and soil) to build a causeway to the island. But
  even though Alexander inflicted severe damage on
  the city, it still remained intact. In fact, it
  waxed and waned for the next 1,600 years until
  finally, in A.D. 1291, the Muslims thoroughly
  crushed Tyre. The city never regained its
  once-famous position of wealth and power. The
  prophet Ezekiel looked 1,900 years into the
  future and predicted that Tyre would be a bald
  rock where fishermen gathered to open their nets.
  And that is exactly what history records as
  having happened.

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Assyrian Invasion

• During a time in the history of Israel in which
  Gods people had delved deeply into idolatry, the
  prophet Isaiah foretold that God would raise up
  the Assyrians as His rod of anger in order to
  punish the disobedient Hebrews (Isaiah 105-6).
  But, Isaiah noted, after that had been
  accomplished, God would see to it that the
  Assyrians themselves were punished for their own
  wicked deeds (Isaiah 1012, 24-25).

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Assyrian Invasion

• Isaiah 105 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
  And the staff in whose hand is My indignation. 6
  I will send him against an ungodly nation, And
  against the people of My wrath I will give him
  charge, To seize the spoil, to take the prey, And
  to tread them down like the mire of the
  streets.12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when
  the Lord has performed all His work on Mount Zion
  and on Jerusalem, that He will say, I will
  punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the
  king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty
  looks. 24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of
  hosts O My people, who dwell in Zion, do not be
  afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with
  a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the
  manner of Egypt.25 For yet a very little while
  and the indignation will cease, as will My anger
  in their destruction.

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Assyrian Invasion

• Archaeology has revealed some impressive facts
  regarding this prophecy. Assyrian records
  discovered in recent years discuss the fact that
  in the reign of Hosea, king of Israel,
  Shalmanesar, ruler of Assyria, assaulted Samaria,
  the capital city of Israel. However, he died
  before completing the assault, which was taken up
  by his successor, Sargon, who captured the city
  (cf. 1 Kings 1810). An Assyrian clay prism
  comments on the fact that 27,290 Israelite
  captives were taken in the conflict. Almost
  twenty-five years later, the Assyrian king
  Sennacherib once again invaded Palestine (2 Kings
  1813ff.). Archaeological records report that 46
  Judean cities were seized and that 200,150
  Israelites were captured. Jerusalem, however, was
  not conquered.a fact that is noteworthy since 2
  Kings 1932-34 predicted that Sennacherib would
  be unable to take the holy city.

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Assyrian Invasion

• The Taylor Cylinder, discovered at Nineveh in
  1830, presents the history of the Assyrians.
  assault, and states that king Hezekiah of
  Judah was .shut up like a bird in a
  cage.. But was Jerusalem itself spared? It
  was. And were the wicked Assyrians punished? They
  were. The account in 2 Kings 1935 indicates that
  in one night God annihilated 185,000 Assyrian
  soldiers who had encircled Jerusalem. In
  addition, the prophecy stated that Sennacherib
  would return to his home and there fall by the
  sword (2 Kings 197). Some twenty years
  later, he was assassinated by his own
  sons, who smote him with the sword while he
  was worshiping pagan deities (Isaiah 3737-38).

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Other Prophecies

• King Josiah had his lifes work foretold (his
  name even being provided within the prophetic
  utterance) more than three hundred years before
  he was born (1 Kings 132).

• 1 Kings 132Then he cried out against the altar
  by the word of the Lord, and said, O altar,
  altar! Thus says the Lord Behold, a child,
  Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of
  David and on you he shall sacrifice the priests
  of the high places who burn incense on you, and
  mens bones shall be burned on you.

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Other Prophecies

• Josiah was not the only king who was called by
  name prior to birth. Cyrus, the future king of
  Persia, likewise was called by name more than a
  century-and-a-half prior to his birth (Isaiah
  4428 451), and some of his activities as king
  were foretold. As always, the prophecies of the
  biblical record came true in exacting detail.

• Isaiah 4428 Who says of Cyrus, He is My
  shepherd, And he shall perform all My pleasure,
  Saying to Jerusalem, You shall be built, And to
  the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.  
• Isaiah 451 Thus says the Lord to His anointed,
  To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held To subdue
  nations before him And loose the armor of kings,
  To open before him the double doors, So that the
  gates will not be shut

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Other Prophecies-Jesus

• Genesis 315 And I will put enmity Between you
  and the woman, And between your seed and her
  Seed He shall bruise your head, And you shall
  bruise His heel.
• Galatians 44 But when the fullness of the time
  had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a
  woman, born under the law,
• Isaiah 714 Therefore the Lord Himself will give
  you a sign Behold, the virgin shall conceive and
  bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
• Matthew 122-23 So all this was done that it
  might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord
  through the prophet, saying Behold, the virgin
  shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they
  shall call His name Immanuel, which is
  translated, God with us. 
• Genesis 123 I will bless those who bless you,
  And I will curse him who curses you And in you
  all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
• Acts 325-26 You are sons of the prophets, and of
  the covenant which God made with our fathers,
  saying to Abraham, And in your seed all the
  families of the earth shall be blessed. To you
  first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus,
  sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one
  of you from your iniquities.

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• Psalm 13211 The Lord has sworn in truth to
  David He will not turn from it I will set upon
  your throne the fruit of your body.
• Jeremiah 235 Behold, the days are coming, says
  the Lord, That I will raise to David a Branch of
  righteousness A King shall reign and prosper,
  And execute judgment and righteousness in the
  earth.
• Revelation 2216 I, Jesus, have sent My angel to
  testify to you these things in the churches. I am
  the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright
  and Morning Star.
• Isaiah 403 The voice of one crying in the
  wilderness Prepare the way of the Lord Make
  straight in the desert A highway for our God.
• Malachi 31 Behold, I send My messenger, And he
  will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord,
  whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple,
  Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you
  delight. Behold, He is coming, Says the Lord of
  hosts.
• Malachi 45 Behold, I will send you Elijah the
  prophet Before the coming of the great and
  dreadful day of the Lord.
• Matthew 33 For this is he who was spoken of by
  the prophet Isaiah, saying The voice of one
  crying in the wildernessPrepare the way of the
  LordMake His paths straight.
• Luke 33-4 And he went into all the region around
  the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for
  the remission of sins,as it is written in the
  book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying
  The voice of one crying in the wilderness
  Prepare the way of the Lord Make His paths
  straight.

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• Micah 52 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though
  you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet
  out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be
  Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of
  old, From everlasting.
• Matthew 25-6 So they said to him, In Bethlehem
  of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet
  But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,Are not
  the least among the rulers of JudahFor out of
  you shall come a Ruler who will shepherd My
  people Israel.  
• Psalm 27 I will declare the decree The Lord
  has said to Me, You are My Son, Today I have
  begotten You.
• Isaiah 96 For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a
  Son is given And the government will be upon His
  shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful,
  Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince
  of Peace.
• Isaiah 259 And it will be said in that day
  Behold, this is our God We have waited for Him,
  and He will save us. This is the Lord We have
  waited for Him We will be glad and rejoice in
  His salvation.
• Jeremiah 236 In His days Judah will be saved,
  And Israel will dwell safely Now this is His
  name by which He will be called THE LORD OUR
  RIGHTEOUSNESS.

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• Acts 1333 God has fulfilled this for us their
  children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it
  is also written in the second Psalm You are My
  Son, Today I have begotten You. Matthew 1127
  All things have been delivered to Me by My
  Father, and no one knows the Son except the
  Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except
  the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to
  reveal Him.
• Matthew 123 Behold, the virgin shall be with
  child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His
  name Immanuel, which is translated, God with
  us.
• Luke 211 For there is born to you this day in
  the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the
  Lord.
• Jeremiah 3115 Thus says the Lord A voice was
  heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping,
  Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be
  comforted for her children, because they are no
  more.
• Matthew 217-18 Then was fulfilled what was
  spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying A voice
  was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping, and
  great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children,
  refusing to be comforted, because they are no
  more.
• Isaiah 91-2 Nevertheless the gloom will not be
  upon her who is distressed, As when at first He
  lightly esteemed The land of Zebulun and the land
  of Naphtali, And afterward more heavily oppressed
  her, By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, In
  Galilee

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• of the Gentiles. The people who walked in
  darkness Have seen a great light Those who dwelt
  in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a
  light has shined.
• Matthew 414-16 that it might be fulfilled which
  was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, sayingThe
  land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, By the
  way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the
  Gentiles The people who sat in darkness have
  seen a great light, And upon those who sat in the
  region and shadow of death Light has dawned. 
• Psalm 1104 The Lord has sworn And will not
  relent, You are a priest forever According to
  the order of Melchizedek.
• Hebrews 56 As He also says in another placeYou
  are a priest forever according to the order of
  Melchizedek
• Deuteronomy 1815 The Lord your God will raise
  up for you a Prophet like me from your midst,
  from your brethren. Him you shall hear,
• Deuteronomy 1818 I will raise up for them a
  Prophet like you from among their brethren, and
  will put My words in His mouth, and He shall
  speak to them all that I command Him.
• Acts 322 For Moses truly said to the fathers,
  The Lord your God will raise up for you a
  Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall
  hear in all things, whatever He says to you.

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• Psalm 699 Because zeal for Your house has eaten
  me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach
  You have fallen on me.
• John 217 Then His disciples remembered that it
  was written, Zeal for Your house has eaten Me
  up. 
• Isaiah 6211 Indeed the Lord has proclaimed To
  the end of the world Say to the daughter of
  Zion, Surely your salvation is coming Behold,
  His reward is with Him, And His work before Him.
  
• Zechariah 99 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
  Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold,
  your King is coming to you He is just and having
  salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt,
  the foal of a donkey.
• Matthew 214-5 All this was done that it might be
  fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,
  saying Tell the daughter of Zion,Behold, your
  King is coming to you,Lowly, and sitting on a
  donkey,A colt, the foal of a donkey.
• Psalm 419 Even my own familiar friend in whom I
  trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel
  against me.
• Psalm 5513 But it was you, a man my equal, My
  companion and my acquaintance.
• John 1318 I do not speak concerning all of you.
  I know whom I have chosen but that the Scripture
  may be fulfilled, He who eats bread with Me has
  lifted up his heel against Me.

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• Zechariah 1112 Then I said to them, If it is
  agreeable to you, give me my wages and if not,
  refrain. So they weighed out for my wages thirty
  pieces of silver.
• Zechariah 1113 And the Lord said to me, Throw
  it to the potterthat princely price they set on
  me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and
  threw them into the house of the Lord for the
  potter.Matthew 279-10 Then was fulfilled what
  was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And
  they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value
  of Him who was priced, whom they of the children
  of Israel priced,and gave them for the potters
  field, as the Lord directed me.
• Zechariah 137 Awake, O sword, against My
  Shepherd, Against the Man who is My Companion,
  Says the Lord of hosts. Strike the Shepherd, And
  the sheep will be scattered Then I will turn My
  hand against the little ones.
• Matthew 2656 But all this was done that the
  Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.
  Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.
• Psalm 3813-14 But I, like a deaf man, do not
  hear And I am like a mute who does not open his
  mouth.Thus I am like a man who does not hear, And
  in whose mouth is no response.
• Isaiah 537 He was oppressed and He was
  afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth He was
  led as a lamb

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• to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its
  shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.
• Matthew 2712-14 And while He was being accused
  by the chief priests and elders, He answered
  nothing.Then Pilate said to Him, Do You not hear
  how many things they testify against You? But He
  answered him not one word, so that the governor
  marveled greatly.
• Psalm 3515-16 But in my adversity they rejoiced
  And gathered together Attackers gathered against
  me, And I did not know itThey tore at me and did
  not cease With ungodly mockers at feasts They
  gnashed at me with their teeth.
• Psalm 227 All those who see Me ridicule Me They
  shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
• Matthew 2667 Then they spat in His face and beat
  Him and others struck Him with the palms of
  their hands,
• Matthew 2739 40 And those who passed by
  blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying,
  You who destroy the temple and build it in three
  days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God,
  come down from the cross. 
• Psalm 6921 They also gave me gall for my food,
  And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
• Matthew 2734 they gave Him sour wine mingled
  with gall to drink. But when He had tasted it, He
  would not drink.

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• John 1929-30 Now a vessel full of sour wine was
  sitting there and they filled a sponge with sour
  wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth.
• So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He
  said, It is finished! And bowing His head, He
  gave up His spirit.
• Psalm 221 My God, My God, why have You forsaken
  Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from
  the words of My groaning?
• Psalm 315 Into Your hand I commit my spirit You
  have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
• Matthew 2746 And about the ninth hour Jesus
  cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli,
  lama sabachthani? that is, My God, My God, why
  have You forsaken Me?
• Isaiah 534 Surely He has borne our griefs And
  carried our sorrows Yet we esteemed Him
  stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
• Isaiah 536 All we like sheep have gone astray
  We have turned, every one, to his own way And
  the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
• Matthew 817 that it might be fulfilled which was
  spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying He Himself
  took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses.
• Isaiah 5312 Therefore I will divide Him a
  portion with the great, And He shall divide the
  spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His
  soul unto death, And He was numbered with the
  transgressors, And

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• He bore the sin of many, And made intercession
  for the transgressors.
• Matthew 2738 Then two robbers were crucified
  with Him, one on the right and another on the
  left.
• Psalm 2216 For dogs have surrounded Me The
  congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They
  pierced My hands and My feet
• Zechariah 1210 And I will pour on the house of
  David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the
  Spirit of grace and supplication then they will
  look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will
  mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and
  grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
• John 1934 But one of the soldiers pierced His
  side with a spear, and immediately blood and
  water came out.
• John 1937 And again another Scripture says,
  They shall look on Him whom they pierced.
• Psalm 3420 He guards all his bones Not one of
  them is broken.
• John 1933 But when they came to Jesus and saw
  that He was already dead, they did not break His
  legs.
• John 1936 For these things were done that the
  Scripture should be fulfilled, Not one of His
  bones shall be broken.

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• Psalm 2218 They divide My garments among them,
  And for My clothing they cast lots.
• John 1923-24 Then the soldiers, when they had
  crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four
  parts, to each soldier a part, and also the
  tunic.
• Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the
  top in one piece.They said therefore among
  themselves, Let us not tear it, but cast lots
  for it, whose it shall be, that the Scripture
  might be fulfilled which says They divided My
  garments among them, And for My clothing they
  cast lots.Therefore the soldiers did these
  things.
• Isaiah 539 And they made His grave with the
  wicked But with the rich at His death, Because
  He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in
  His mouth.
• Matthew 2757-60 Now when evening had come, there
  came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who
  himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.This
  man went to Pilate and asked for the body of
  Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given
  to him. When Joseph had taken the body, he
  wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,and laid it in
  his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock
  and he rolled a large stone against the door of
  the tomb, and departed.

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• Psalm 1610 For You will not leave my soul in
  Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see
  corruption.
• Psalm 303 O Lord, You brought my soul up from
  the grave You have kept me alive, that I should
  not go down to the pit.
• Acts 231-32 he, foreseeing this, spoke
  concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that
  His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh
  see corruption.
• This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all
  witnesses.
• Psalm 1101 The Lord said to my Lord,Sit at My
  right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your
  footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of Your
  strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your
  enemies!
• Psalm 247-10 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
  And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the
  King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of
  glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord
  mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you
  gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the
  King of glory shall come in.Who is this King of
  glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of
  glory.
• Acts 19 Now when He had spoken these things,
  while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud
  received Him out of their sight.
• Ephesians 120-23 which He worked in Christ when
  He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His
  right hand in the heavenly places,far above all
  principality and power and might and dominion,