¹⁴ This fulfilled what God said through the prophet Isaiah:

Hope in the Messiah

9 ^[a]Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go on forever. The land of Zebulun and Naphtali will be humbled, but there will be a time in the future when Galilee of the Gentiles, which lies along the road that runs between the Jordan and the sea, will be filled with glory.

²⁵ This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures^[a]: ‘They hated me without cause.’

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.”

¹⁷ This fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah concerning him:

¹⁷ This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said,

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]

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

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]

The Death of Jesus

²⁸ Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture he said, “I am thirsty.”^[a]