The stories were constructed to -fulfil- the Old Testament prophecies.

Other Old Testament prophecies, however, do give insight concerning that gap, and we turn to these now for further understanding.

In effect, dozens of these Old Testament prophecies created a fingerprint that only the true Messiah could fit.

"The odds alone say it would be impossible for anyone to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies," Lapides concluded.

The Messiah was a leader of the Jewish people, and had been spoken of in Old Testament prophecies.

And of course Matthew understood everything that Jesus did and said as a fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies.

Justin occasionally uses the Gospel of Matthew directly as a source for Old Testament prophecies to supplement his testimony sources.

These same events - Antichrist's betrayal of Israel and his invasion of her holy city - are vividly foretold in a number of Old Testament prophecies.

Theologically, these are different attributions: Messiah refers to his fulfilling the expected Old Testament prophecies, while Son of God refers to a paternal relationship.

Bunsen's Biblical Researches by Rowland Williams-"denying the predictive character of Old Testament prophecies"

I also picked out for him, in Isaiah and Daniel and elsewhere, the Old Testament prophecies that parallel the New Testament prophecies.

Apologist Josh McDowell documents the Old Testament prophecies fulfilled by Christ, relating to his ancestral line, birthplace, virgin birth, miracles, death and resurrection.

As we have seen, Jesus was steeped in Old Testament prophecies - especially those of Zechariah pertaining to the Messiah - and acted repeatedly in close adherence to them.

This belief is not shared by most adherents of replacement theology (or supersessionism), who hold the view that the Old Testament prophecies were superseded by the coming of Jesus.

Buck was weary but kept ministering, amazed at so many, steeped in their centuries-old religion, finally seeing that Jesus Christ fulfilled all the Old Testament prophecies concerning the coming Messiah.

Davidians believe that a kingdom will be set up in Palestine just prior to Christ's return based primarily upon numerous Old Testament prophecies (such as Hosea 3: 4, 5; Mic.

Messiah in particular had everything going for it as far as the Welsh audience was concerned, with its subject matter ranging from the Old Testament prophecies through to the New Testament Resurrection.

In Christianity, atonement can refer to the redemption achieved by Jesus Christ by his virgin birth, sinless life, crucifixion, and resurrection, thereby fulfilling more than 300 Old Testament prophecies.

Petrus Alfonsi's Dialogi contra Iudaeos was not an entirely new polemical concept; he used the same arguments and cited the same Old Testament prophecies that polemicists before him had been using.

The heralds must do things that are truly spectacular to engage attention, "There is a precedent, established in the old testament prophecies foretelling the coming of Jesus, of prophetic announcements originating in the heavens.

In a style modelled on the Platonic dialogues, Justin here interpreted Old Testament prophecies which he saw fulfilled in Jesus and in the present life of the church, already spreading throughout the known world.

A famous musical reflection on the Passion is Part II of Messiah, an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, though the text here draws from Old Testament prophecies rather than from the Gospels themselves.

These are particularly obvious when the evangelists are engaged in aligning or shaping events in Jesus's life to fit Old Testament prophecies: there, the temptation to create, and so to falsify, is obvious, and we are on our guard.

Even now that Israel has returned to her land in perfect fulfillment of many Old Testament prophecies and has been politically reestablished in the international community, nonliteral interpretations of the last days unfortunately still persist and in fact are increasing!

Christians also suggest that by using an indirect quotation and the plural term prophets, "Matthew was only saying that by living in Nazareth, Jesus was fulfilling the many Old Testament prophecies that He would be despised and rejected."