Was Jesus’ birth foretold before he was born?

It is interesting to note that Jesus’ birth, life and death were predicted by people speaking and writing under the influence of God centuries before Jesus was born. I do not have enough room here to discuss every case of fulfilled prophecy relating to Jesus, but I have chosen the ones that relate to his death and the events leading up to it.

The book of Isaiah, which was begun about 750 years before Jesus’ death, declared that the Messiah, whom Jesus claimed to be, would be spat on and whipped (Isaiah 1:6, 50:6). This was fulfilled by the torture and whipping inflicted on Jesus prior to his crucifixion as recorded in Matthew 27:67, 27:26 and Mark 14:65.

The Book of Psalms, which was a written over a span of a thousand years and was finally edited a few centuries before Jesus’ birth, gives us the most details regarding the nature of Jesus’ death. According to various Psalms (or worship songs), Jesus would be given vinegar to drink whilst he hung on the cross (Psalm 69:21), be pierced with crucifixion nails (Psalm 22:16), agonise with thirst (Psalm 22:15), and would have his garments distributed whilst he hung naked on the cross. All of these prophecies were fulfilled according to the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ death and any reading of the Gospel accounts will confirm this.

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