The Suffering Servant will be despised and rejected by His own people. The Suffering Servant will bear the abuse we deserve for our physical and spiritual healing. Jesus did this. The Suffering Servant is like a lamb that does not defend itself. Although Jesus spoke during His trials, He never offered a defense. The Suffering Servant will be buried in the grave of a rich man. Jesus was buried in the grave of Joseph of Arimathea. God ordained that the Suffering Servant would suffer and die.
God sent Jesus to die. The Suffering Servant will intercede for His abusers. Jesus asked God to forgive those who crucified Him. God promises a great light to pierce the darkness of Israel and the nations.
Jesus is that light. God promises someone to declare good news for the brokenhearted, captives, and prisoners. Jesus is that someone. God promises a "righteous Branch" from the line of Jesse who will do what is just. Jesus is that Branch. God makes a woman "encircle" or protect a man. The Holy Spirit conceived Jesus in Mary. Gabriel tells Daniel when the "Anointed One" will be "cut off. Jesus was struck on the head with a staff.
The Branch will be a priest in the temple. Jesus is a priest in the order of Melchizedek. God told Zechariah to take the thirty pieces of silver he earned and throw it to the potter. If someone strikes the shepherd, the sheep will scatter. When Jesus was arrested, His disciples fled.
The Lord will come to the temple and refine the silver and the priests. Jesus came to the temple and threw out the money changers. Jesus said He will suffer and die.
Before the crucifixion, both the priests' guards and the Roman soldiers beat Jesus. Jesus said He will be handed over on the Passover. He was handed over at night, after Galileans celebrated the Passover but before Judeans do. Jesus said He will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, killed, and rise again three days later.
Simeon said Jesus will cause many hearts to be revealed. The Sanhedrin was revealed to be jealous. Simeon told Mary her soul will be pierced because of Jesus. Matthew must have known that he was not going to change minds with his fulfillment of prophecy theme.
He designed it to support the faith of his own Christian-Jewish community, not to convert outsiders. Believing that Jesus was the fulfillment of prophecy helped to reassure his Jewish followers of the rightness of their cause, at a time when the prestige of Jewish authority made this cause seem religiously illegitimate.
But that time no longer exists. It has not existed for nineteen centuries. The viability of Christian belief is not even remotely threatened by Judaism. Today there is not the slightest possibility that Christians will stop following Jesus because Jews do not regard him as the messiah. Christian history is marred with the ugly consequences of the anti-Judaism fostered by those beliefs. Do not Christians now have the moral obligation to let go of the notion that if Jews truly understood the scriptures they would become Christians?
The belief that the prophets were pointing to Jesus, though perhaps helpful at the time Matthew wrote his gospel, has long since outlived its usefulness. It is a belief that distorts the scriptures and has had ugly consequences in history. Out of respect for Judaism and for the Bible, therefore, I propose that Christians have an intellectual and moral duty to abandon this obsolete, self-serving, and dangerous belief.
What do you think? All rights reserved. May not be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the copyright holder. But the New Testament does not in fact assert that Jesus came back to life on earth, or that he physically left his grave alive after he had died, nor does it maintain that faith in him is based on an empty tomb. How did such beliefs emerge from the early Church? Westar Institute fosters collaborative, cumulative research in religious studies and communicates the results of the scholarship to a broad, non-specialist public.
Did Jesus Fulfill Prophecy? How Matthew Uses Prophecy Twelve times in his gospel, Matthew interrupts the story to tell us that the event he is narrating fulfilled a specific prophecy, which he then quotes.
Matt —5 In this scene Jesus rides into Jerusalem to the cheers of a crowd. Matt —16 To position Jesus as fulfiller of prophecy, Matthew chooses descriptive details from Isaiah and crafts them into elaborations on the reports and clues that he found in Mark.
Matt —5 Matthew creates a ludicrous scene: Jesus stunt-rides two animals into Jerusalem. Matt and With the thirty silver coins, Matthew yet again inserts details from a prophecy into a story that he borrowed from Mark. Did the prophets know what they were talking about? What kind of God is worshiped by a religion that caters to these needs?
How did Easter originally happen? Westar Institute Westar Institute fosters collaborative, cumulative research in religious studies and communicates the results of the scholarship to a broad, non-specialist public. Join Us Help bring accessible religious scholarship into public conversation. Join Our Mailing List Subscribe. He would be entering into His public ministry in Galilee. He would be entering publicly into Jerusalem and come into the temple. He would live in poverty and meekness, tenderness, and compassion.
He would be without the deceit, He'd be full of zeal, preaching with parables, working miracles, bearing reproach. He would be rejected by His own Jewish brethren. The Jews and Gentiles would combined together against Him.
He would be betrayed by a friend. His disciples would forsake Him. He would be sold for thirty pieces of silver. At that price would be given for a potter's field. He would die with intense suffering yet be silent under that suffering. He would be struck on the cheek, His visage would be marred. He would be spit upon and scarred.
His hands and His feet would be nailed to the cross. Gal and vinegar would be offered to Him. His garments would be parted. Lots would be cast for His clothing.
He would be numbered among the transgressors. He would intercede for His murderers. He would die but not a bone of His body would be broken. He would be pierced long before crucifixion would even ever be invented. He would be buried with the rich.
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