Prophecies allegedly fulfilled by Christ - Definition and Overview

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This article is about Christian interpretations of selected verses from the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible, Old Testament), which they hold to be prophetic claims that Jesus has been promised by God to be born as a human, and would be a messiah.

In some cases, the New Testament quotes the Hebrew Bible (typically the Greek Septuagint translation of it) and asserts that the quotation applies to Jesus. In other instances Christian traditions, rather than the New Testament, make this assertion. Critics of this way of reading the Bible hold that these phrases are often shorn of their original context, in which there is no obvious indication that they were actually predicting anything. Occasionally statistical arguments are made, involving the improbability of someone fulfilling all these prophesies: such arguments are heavily criticised because the list of prophesies was chosen on the basis of having been fulfilled. Most books of the Hebrew Bible were written hundreds of years, and some parts possibly thousands of years, before the birth of Jesus. Many of the verses below were not widely held to be "prophecies" until after the New Testament had been written. Others were thought to be prophecies, but not necessarily connected with the idea of a "messiah".

Here is a list of verses often held by Christians to be messianic prophesies:

See also

• Anglo-Israelism
• Anti-Semitism
• Comparing and contrasting Judaism and Christianity
• Supersessionism
• Christian Zionism
• Judeo-Christian tradition
• Christianity and anti-Semitism
• Jewish Christians
• Messianic Judaism
• Mormonism and Judaism
• Talmidaism
• Unification Church and anti-Semitism