Matthew 1:22

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”

For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.

Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.

for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!” All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.

and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!

Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”

“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,

All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”

They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel priced,

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”

For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.