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Nov 8, 2015 · The reality is that the so-called “messianic prophecies” that are said to point to Jesus never taken to be messianic prophecies by Jews prior to the Christians who saw Jesus as the messiah.
THE JEWISH MESSIANIC EXPECTATION IN THE TIME OF JESUS. By SHAILER MATHEWS, The University of Chicago. THE sources from which we may draw our knowledge of the Jewish expectation of the Christ as it existed in the New Testa-ment period are, on the whole, neither scanty nor yet altogether satisfactory. They are apparently the literature of a certain
Israel’s unbelief in the face of Jesus’s wonder-working. According to the double quotation of Isa 53:1 and 6:10, this rejection happened in order to fulfill the word of Isaiah (12:38). The meaning of 6:10 prima facie seems straightforward: God hardened the Jews’ hearts so that they could not believe. Why, then, does John also
- Jesus and The Ten Commandments
- The Sermon on The Mount References to The Tanakh
- Jesus’ Teaching on Honoring Parents
- Jesus’ Temptation in The Wilderness
- The Torah and Resurrection
- The Two Greatest Commandments
- The Testimony of Two
- Jesus and Isaiah’s Prophecy
- Jesus and The Message of Hosea 6:6
- Jesus and The Messianic Age
The Torah is foundational to Judaism, and Yeshua quoted it often. In Matthew 19:16–20, Yeshua conversed with a young man who asked him the way to eternal life. He replied that he must keep the commandments: “‘You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and...
The Sermon on the Mount contains a set of ethical instructions taken straight from the Hebrew Scriptures. Yeshua hit on a series of moral topics from the Torah in order to challenge some of the popular ways that people in that time understood God’s instructions. For example, Yeshua upheld the command of Exodus 20:13 when he said, “You have heard th...
Yeshua quoted from the Torah to make his point that many often neglected to keep the commandment to honor one’s parentsout of self-interest. Instead of contradicting the Torah, Yeshua boldly cited Scripture to point out the ways that those who are condemning him had fallen short: This echoed the command of the Exodus to “Honor your father and your ...
After Yeshua’s baptism, he was taken into the wilderness where he was tempted by Satan. He responded to each temptation by quoting from the Torah, showing the supreme value he placed on it for life, thought, and behavior. When Satan tempted him with food, he responded: “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes...
Yeshua challenged the Sadducees’ lack of belief that the dead will rise again with a quote from the Torah: This was taken directly from Exodus 3:6 when God told Moses who He is: This kind of argument was known to rabbinic Judaism, too. In the Talmud (Sanhedrin 90b), as scholar Joseph Klausner notes:
Shortly after Yeshua’s encounter with the Sadducees regarding the resurrection, a lawyer put him to the test by asking what the greatest commandment of the Law is. Yeshua replied: Yeshua echoed Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18. While the Torah has “all your might,” in Matthew, Yeshua said “all your mind.” Variations like that were common, and mo...
In John chapter eight, Yeshua’s discussion with some Pharisees is cast in terms of a legal case, for which two or three witnesses are needed. Yeshua appears to use the rabbinic qal va-homer (“how much more”) argument: if the testimony of two people is true, how much more so is the testimony of Yeshua and his heavenly Father. The chapter is really a...
As Yeshua was preaching in his hometown synagogue, he applied the prophet Isaiah’s good newsmessage of hope to himself: Taken directly from Isaiah’s message: Isaiah’s message of hope was not declared into a void—Yeshua himself came and boldly claimed that he was the fulfilment of that message. And he did not just say this, he acted in a way that re...
When Yeshua was confronted by some who wondered why he eats with the lowly and despised of society, his response in Matthew 9:13 was taken from the prophet Hosea, and he applied it to himself. “Go and learn” was common rabbinic parlance for studying the Scripture, and Jesus used it here to send his listeners to the prophet Hosea. Later, in Matthew ...
In Matthew 10, some may falsely see Yeshua as encouraging family turmoil—unless one recognizes that he is quoting from the prophet Micah 7:6. Micah’s words form the backdrop to the rabbinic understanding that the messianic age would be a time of great social disruption:
The relationship of Jesus to the Hebrew prophets has always been regarded as one of supreme importance. While interpreters have usually contrasted Jesus with. the prophets, holding that he introduced a higher type of religion, the prophetic type.
May 22, 2019 · The first generation of Jesus’ followers were Scripture-reading Jews who believed that Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection were fulfillments of prophetic predictions that a messiah would one day appear upon the earth, and that his arrival would herald the coming end time.
It developed into Rabbinic Judaism and has persisted to the present. But one other contemporary Jewish group can be compared with it in continued influence. It is the one that arose in response to Jesus of Nazareth, his life, death and resurrection, and ultimately evolved into the Christian Church. The origins of Christianity are immensely complex.
