Jesus and Messianic Prophecy

Jesus And Messianic Prophecy

The Christian New Testament frequently cites Jewish scripture to support the claim of the Early Christians that Jesus of Nazareth was the messiah, and faith in Jesus as the Christos and his imminent expected Second Coming. The majority of these quotations and references are taken from the Book of Isaiah, but they range over the entire corpus of Jewish writings.

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