Matthew 1:22
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22 All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet:
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Luke 24:44
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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.”
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Matthew 2:23
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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.”
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1 Kings 8:15
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15 “Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept the promise he made to my father, David. For he told my father,
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Matthew 13:35
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35 This fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet:
“I will speak to you in parables.
I will explain things hidden since the creation of the world.[a]”
1 Kings 8:24
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24 You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today.
Acts 3:18
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18 But God was fulfilling what all the prophets had foretold about the Messiah—that he must suffer these things.
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John 19:36-37
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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]
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John 18:9
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9 He did this to fulfill his own statement: “I did not lose a single one of those you have given me.”[a]
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John 17:12
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12 During my time here, I protected them by the power of the name you gave me.[a] I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold.
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- 17:12 Some manuscripts read I protected those you gave me, by the power of your name.
John 15:25
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25 This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures[a]: ‘They hated me without cause.’
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John 12:38-40
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38 This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted:
“Lord, who has believed our message?
To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?”[a]
39 But the people couldn’t believe, for as Isaiah also said,
40 “The Lord has blinded their eyes
and hardened their hearts—
so that their eyes cannot see,
and their hearts cannot understand,
and they cannot turn to me
and have me heal them.”[b]
John 10:35
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35 And you know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people who received God’s message were called ‘gods,’
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Matthew 13:21
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21 But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word.
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Matthew 2:15
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15 and they stayed there until Herod’s death. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “I called my Son out of Egypt.”[a]
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Ezra 1:1
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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:
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- 1:1a The first year of Cyrus’s reign over Babylon was 538 B.c.
- 1:1b See Jer 25:11-12; 29:10.
Matthew 12:17
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17 This fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah concerning him:
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Matthew 8:17
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17 This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said,
“He took our sicknesses
and removed our diseases.”[a]
Matthew 5:17
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Teaching about the Law
17 “Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose.
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Acts 13:27-29
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27 The people in Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize Jesus as the one the prophets had spoken about. Instead, they condemned him, and in doing this they fulfilled the prophets’ words that are read every Sabbath. 28 They found no legal reason to execute him, but they asked Pilate to have him killed anyway.
29 “When they had done all that the prophecies said about him, they took him down from the cross[a] and placed him in a tomb.
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- 13:29 Greek from the tree.
Luke 21:22
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22 For those will be days of God’s vengeance, and the prophetic words of the Scriptures will be fulfilled.
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Revelation 17:17
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17 For God has put a plan into their minds, a plan that will carry out his purposes. They will agree to give their authority to the scarlet beast, and so the words of God will be fulfilled.
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