Jesus, the Christ: Other Scriptures Relating to his Messiahship

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:

Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

…to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?” …

“But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?”

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is He?” “David’s,” they answered. …

But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”

“You have said it yourself,” Jesus answered. “But I say to all of you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, He asked, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David? …

Simeon took Him in his arms and blessed God, saying: …

Coming forward at that moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the Child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Then Jesus declared, “How can it be said that the Christ is the Son of David? …

Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! …

He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”

You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

But I have testimony more substantial than that of John. For the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works I am doing—testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

And the Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form,

You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”

Jesus replied, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.

Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.

I am One who testifies about Myself, and the Father, who sent Me, also testifies about Me.”

“Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”

I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it comes to pass, you will believe that I am He.

But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

…that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you.

Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

But Saul was empowered all the more, and he confounded the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ.

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

…explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.

And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,

…the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.

But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

…that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God— …

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully,

…trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. …

This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth. …