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Jews for Jesus has curated approximately 40 of the
most helpful messianic prophecies along with their New
Testament fulfillments. Through this collection, we trust
you will gain a deeper understanding of God’s redemptive
plan for his people through the promised Messiah.
Curated by Rich Robinson, Senior Researcher

After Yeshua (Jesus) was crucified, some of his followers were crushed. They had
hoped that he would be the Messiah who would destroy the tyranny of Rome and
restore the kingdom of Israel. But their idea of the Messiah was not God’s idea. Yeshua
died, but he also rose from the dead, and to his disappointed followers he said:

“How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And
beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said
in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with
us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
(Luke 24:25 –27 NIV, Luke 24:32 NIV)

“To suffer these things and then to enter his glory,” he had to first die as an
atonement for our sins and then rise from the dead—as the prophets of the Hebrew
Bible had said.
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1 WOULD BE THE I will put enmity between you and the The God of peace will soon crush Satan
SEED OF THE woman, and between your offspring under your feet. The grace of our Lord
WOMAN. and her offspring; he shall bruise your Jesus Christ be with you.
head, and you shall bruise his heel. Romans 16:20
Genesis 3:15
See also:
Galatians 4:4
Hebrews 2:14
Revelation 12:9
Revelation 12:17

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2 WOULD BE THE I will bless those who bless you, and And all the prophets who have spoken,
DESCENDANT OF him who dishonors you I will curse, from Samuel and those who came
ABRAHAM THROUGH and in you all the families of the earth after him, also proclaimed these days.
WHOM ALL NATIONS shall be blessed. You are the sons of the prophets and
WOULD BE BLESSED Genesis 12:3 of the covenant that God made with
your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And
in your offspring shall all the families
of the earth be blessed.’ God, having
raised up his servant, sent him to you
first, to bless you by turning every one
of you from your wickedness.
Acts 3:24–26

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3 WOULD BE A When they came to the place of which
WILLING God had told him, Abraham built the
SACRIFICE altar there and laid the wood in order
and bound Isaac his son and laid him
on the altar, on top of the wood. Then
Abraham reached out his hand and
took the knife to slaughter his son.
Genesis 22:9–10
“For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only Son, that whoever believes
in him should not perish but have
eternal life.”
John 3:16

See also:
Genesis 22:1–18

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4 WOULD BE THE The scepter shall not depart from Judah, For I will not venture to speak of
COMING ONE nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, anything except what Christ has
TO WHOM THE until tribute comes to him; and to him accomplished through me to bring the
SCEPTER BELONGS shall be the obedience of the peoples. Gentiles to obedience—by word and
Genesis 49:10 deed.
Romans 15:18

See also:
Matthew 2:6
Matthew 2:11
Romans 1:5
Romans 16:26
Hebrews 7:14
Revelation 5:5

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5 WOULD BE THE Tell all the congregation of Israel that on Behold, the Lamb of God
PASSOVER LAMB the tenth day of this month every man The next day he saw Jesus coming
shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ toward him, and said, “Behold, the
houses, a lamb for a household. . . . Your Lamb of God, who takes away the sin
lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year of the world!”
old . . . Then they shall take some of the John 1:29
blood and put it on the two doorposts and
the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. See also:
They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted John 1:36
on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter John 19:33
herbs they shall eat it . . . This day shall John 19:36
be for you a memorial day, and you shall 1 Corinthians 5:7–8
1 Peter 1:19
keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout
your generations, as a statute forever, you
shall keep it as a feast. . . . Then the people
of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had
commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

In the following sections of the passage the

tenth plague: death of the firstborn takes place
as well as the exodus and the institution of
Passover.

All the people of Israel did just as the Lord

commanded Moses and Aaron. And on
that very day the Lord brought the people
of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their
hosts.
Exodus 12:1–51

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6 WOULD BE Then the Lord sent fiery serpents
LIFTED UP among the people, and they bit the
people, so that many people of Israel
died. And the people came to Moses
and said, “We have sinned, for we have
spoken against the Lord and against
you. Pray to the Lord, that he take
away the serpents from us.” So Moses
prayed for the people. And the Lord
said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent
and set it on a pole, and everyone who
is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” So
Moses made a bronze serpent and set it
on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he
would look at the bronze serpent and live.
Numbers 21:6–9
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7 WOULD BE “I see him, but not now; I behold him,
THE STAR but not near: a star shall come out of
COMING OUT Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of
OF JACOB Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab
and break down all the sons of Sheth.”
Numbers 24:17
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8 WOULD BE “The Lord your God will raise up for
A PROPHET you a prophet like me from among you,
LIKE MOSES from your brothers—it is to him you
shall listen. . . I will raise up for them
a prophet like you from among their
brothers. And I will put my words in
his mouth, and he shall speak to them
all that I command him. And whoever
will not listen to my words that he shall
speak in my name, I myself will require
it of him.”
Deuteronomy 18:15–19
FULFILLMENT
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in
the wilderness, so must the Son of Man
be lifted up, that whoever believes in
him may have eternal life. “For God
so loved the world, that he gave his
only Son, that whoever believes in him
should not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the
world to condemn the world, but in
order that the world might be saved
through him. Whoever believes in
him is not condemned, but whoever
does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name
of the only Son of God.
John 3:14-18
FULFILLMENT
Saying, “Where is he who has been
born king of the Jews? For we saw his
star when it rose and have come to
worship him.”
Matthew 2:2
See also:
Revelation 22:16
FULFILLMENT
And they took offense at him. But Jesus
said to them, “A prophet is not without
honor except in his hometown and in
his own household.”
Matthew 13:57
See also:
Matthew 21:46
Luke 24:19
John 1:21
John 1:25
John 6:14
John 7:40
Acts 3:22
Acts 7:37
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9 WOULD BE OUR “So I thought I would tell you of it and And his mercy is for those who fear him
KINSMAN- say, ‘Buy it in the presence of those from generation to generation.
REDEEMER sitting here and in the presence of the Luke 1:50
elders of my people.’ If you will redeem
it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell See also:
me, that I may know, for there is no one Luke 1:58
besides you to redeem it, and I come Luke 1:68
after you.” And he said, “I will redeem Luke 1:72
it.” Then Boaz said, “The day you buy Luke 1:78
1 Peter 1:18
the field from the hand of Naomi,
Hebrews 2:11
you also acquire Ruth the Moabite,
the widow of the dead, in order to
perpetuate the name of the dead in
his inheritance.” Then the redeemer
said, “I cannot redeem it for myself,
lest I impair my own inheritance.
Take my right of redemption yourself,
for I cannot redeem it.” Now this was
the custom in former times in Israel
concerning redeeming and exchanging:
to confirm a transaction, the one drew
off his sandal and gave it to the other,
and this was the manner of attesting
in Israel. So when the redeemer said to
Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” he drew off
his sandal. Then Boaz said to the elders
and all the people, “You are witnesses
this day that I have bought from the
hand of Naomi all that belonged to
Elimelech and all that belonged to
Chilion and to Mahlon.”
Ruth 4:4–9

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10 WOULD BE “When your days are fulfilled and The book of the genealogy of Jesus
A DESCENDANT you lie down with your fathers, I will Christ, the son of David, the son of
OF DAVID raise up your offspring after you, who Abraham.
shall come from your body, and I will Matthew 1:1
establish his kingdom. He shall build a
house for my name, and I will establish See also:
the throne of his kingdom forever.” Luke 1:32–33
2 Samuel 7:12–13 Acts 15:15–16
Hebrews 1:5
See also:
2 Samuel 7:12–16

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