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How many Old Testament prophecies are about the crucifixion of Jesus?
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∙ 13y ago
No Old Testament book literally refers to Jesus, and there is no actual prophecy of him or of his crucifixion.
But Burton L. Mack describes a trick that can be used to make any Old Testament book say what you want it to say. By this means, books such as Genesis, Isaiah and Daniel have been made to prophesy Jesus. Mack says in Who Wrote the New Testament that at first the study of a text may not seem to support a traditional Christian conviction, or the answer one hopes to find in The Bible. But with a little ingenuity, one can set up the comparison again with other emphases and make the answer come out right. This trick seems to come naturally when studying the Bible, and Mack sees it happen all the time in the classrooms of the School of Theology at Claremont.
Following these simple rules, you can have as many prophecies of th crucifixion of Jesus as you wish. Some see Isaiah chapter 53 as a prophecy of the crucifixion, because it mentions death and suffering. This was actually written about a "suffering servant" before and after the time of writing and does not mention Jesus or the crucifixion. In fact, it can not be a reference to Jesus, because verse 10 talks about the servant seeing his children, and Jesus is believed not to have had children.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoThere is no clear, direct prophecy about Jesus in the Bible, but if you follow Mack's method, you should be able to find to your own satisfaction quite a few prophecies of the death of Jesus.
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How many New Testament references to Jesus?
The New Testament refers to Jesus over 950 times.
How many times Jesus quote from Old Testament?
Did you mean, "How many times DID Jesus quote from THE old testament?" If so, He quoted from the Old Testament 84 times.
How many times was Jesus prophesy about in the Old Testament?
Really, that is an unanswerable question, because it is an innumerable amount of times that prophecies were made about the Messiah. Some were obvious and some were hidden. There is even the thought, by some, that the entirety of the "Old Testament", as some call it, was a prophecy of Messiah altogether.
How many times did Jesus refer to the Old Testament?
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Did Peter know Old Testament prophecies?
A:The authors of the New Testament, including the authors who wrote two epistles in Peter's name, certainly knew the Old Testament quite well and made frequent references to prophecies said to be contained in the Hebrew scriptures. Whether Peter himself knew many Old Testament prophecies is unknown, although some prophecies seem to have been well known in first-century times and would no doubthave been known by Peter.
