Old Testament Prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus

The chart below contains a list of Old Testament prophecies fulfilled by Jesus of Nazareth who is called the Christ and the Son of God. These fulfilled prophecies demonstrate that the human authors of Scripture who wrote the Bible were inspired by God the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:20-21). It also of course demonstrates that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

There is no way, short of being supernatural, that Jesus could have manipulated the events and people in His life to respond in exactly the way necessary for it to appear that He was fulfilling all these prophecies, including John’s heralding Him.

There were many prophecies concerning the Messiah that were simply beyond the human control of Jesus: (1) Place of birth (Mic. 5:2). (2) Time of birth (Dan. 9:25; Gen. 49:10). (3) Manner of birth (Isa. 7:14). (4) Betrayal (5) Manner of death (Psa. 22:16). (6) People’s reactions (mocking, spitting) (7) Piercing (8) Burial.

The following probabilities are taken from Peter Stoner’s book entitled, “Science Speaks,” which shows that coincidence is ruled out by the science of probability. Stoner says that by using the modern science of probability in reference to just 8 prophecies, Stoner states the following: “We find the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all 8 prophecies is 1 in 10¹⁷…that would be 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000…17 zeros.

In order to help us comprehend this staggering probability, Stoner illustrates it by supposing that we take 10¹⁷ silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas.  They will cover all of the state 2 feet deep. Now, mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the prophets would have of writing just 8 prophecies and having them all come true in any one man, from their day to the present time, providing they wrote them according to their own wisdom.

Now these prophecies were either given by inspiration of God or the prophets just wrote them as they thought they should be. In such a case, the prophets had just one chance in 10 to the 17^th power of having them come true in any man, but they all came true in Christ. This means that the fulfillment of these 8 prophecies alone proves that God inspired the writing of those prophecies to a definiteness which lacks only one chance in 10 to the 17^th power of being absolute.

In addition to these eight, I give you many more…as Jesus said to Thomas…

John 20:27-31, “Then He said to Thomas, ‘Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.’ Thomas answered and said to Him, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him, ‘Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.'”

John writes…
John 20:30-31, “Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.”  

Old Testament Messianic Prophecies Literally Fulfilled by Jesus of Nazareth