²² All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet:

⁴⁴ Then he said, “When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

²³ So the family went and lived in a town called Nazareth. This fulfilled what the prophets had said: “He will be called a Nazarene.”

¹⁵ “Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept the promise he made to my father, David. For he told my father,

¹⁸ But God was fulfilling what all the prophets had foretold about the Messiah—that he must suffer these things.

³⁶ These things happened in fulfillment of the Scriptures that say, “Not one of his bones will be broken,”^{[a] 37} and “They will look on the one they pierced.”^[b]

⁹ He did this to fulfill his own statement: “I did not lose a single one of those you have given me.”^[a]

³⁵ This fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet:

Cyrus Allows the Exiles to Return

1 In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia,^[a] the Lord fulfilled the prophecy he had given through Jeremiah.^[b] He stirred the heart of Cyrus to put this proclamation in writing and to send it throughout his kingdom: