Is there any reference to Jesus being the Son of God in the Old Testament?

Answer 1

Jesus is not mentioned by name in the Old Testament, but Christians believe there are many references to Jesus in the OT. For example Isaiah 7:14 refers to the birth of Jesus.

Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

Jesus himself had no doubt that the Old Testament scriptures referred to him. On the road to Emmaus he taught the two disciples about himself as revealed in 'Moses and the Prophets'.

Luk 24:25 Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Luk 24:26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?"

Luk 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

Answer 2

AnswerThere is no real reference of any type to Jesus anywhere in the Old Testament, which was written long before he was born. There are however, various passages that do not refer to Jesus, but which Christians have reinterpreted as doing so.

For example, 2 Samuel 7:12-12: "When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father, and he shall be My son." This could, at a stretch, be interpreted as referring not so much to Solomon, but to some future son of God. But that son of God, if so interpreted, could be anyone - not just Jesus. The Catholic Encyclopedia points out that the Old Testament uses the term "son of God" for anyone who was said to have a special relationship with God.

Answer 3

A:

The Old Testament does not really foreshadow Jesus, but it can be made to seem to do so. Often, Old Testament writers have written about contemporary issues and concerns, then these passages have been taken out of context and reinterpreted as prophesying or foreshadowing Jesus. Arguably, in some cases, New Testament passages have even been written with particular Old Testament passages in mind - this is especially the case with Matthew's Gospel.

Answer 4

Some say that the Book of Isaiah mentions Jesus. I have read Isaiah several times and have yet to see the name Jesus, or any passage that unambiguously mentions or refers to Jesus.

The belief that the Book of Isaiah mentions Jesus results from Matthew's reference to Isaiah 7:14, which says that "the young woman shall have a child" and the young woman did indeed have a child several verses later. However, the Septuagint, an early and flawed Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, mistranslated this as "a virgin shall have a child." By using the Septuagint instead of the original scripture, by taking it out of context and by saying that any reference to a virgin had to be a reference to Jesus' mother, Matthew created an apparent mention of Jesus.

Answer 5

No, although there are several prophecies that Christians refer to as mentioning him indirectly.

Answer 6

No.