41 Bible Verses about Scriptures Fulfilled

but how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, which say, that thus it must happen?

but all this was to be done, in pursuance of what the prophets had predicted. then all the disciples abandon'd him, and fled.

I was daily among you, teaching in the temple, and you did not then seize upon me. but the scriptures are thereby accomplished.

Afterwards Jesus took the twelve aside, and said to them, now we are going to Jerusalem where all that the prophets have writ concerning the son of man shall be accomplished.

and said, men and brethren, the prediction which the holy ghost made, by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who was guide to those that seiz'd Jesus, must have been accomplished.

for take notice, that scripture, "and he was number'd among the transgressors," is yet to be accomplished in my person: and all that relates to me is going to be consummated.

then he said, this is what I told you, while I was yet with you, that what has been written concerning me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the psalms, must be all accomplished.

Don't think that I am come to abolish the law or the prophets: I am not come to abolish, but to complete them.

I assure you, heaven and earth may as well cease to be, as that one jot or one tittle of the law should fail of its completion.

for I declare unto you, I shall not celebrate this passover with you any more, to the time, when it shall have its accomplishment in the kingdom of the messiah.

I say not this of you all; for I know whom I have chosen: and that passage of the scripture must be fulfilled, "He that eateth bread with me, hath lift up his heel against me."

he undertook to show them, how the passage they had heard, was actually then accomplished.

so that the passage is fulfilled that is written in their law, "they hated me without a cause."

by your authority I have kept them, during my being with them in the world: those that you gave me I have kept, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition: according as the scripture foretold.

they said therefore among themselves, let us not rent it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: so that the scripture was fulfilled, which said, "they parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots." this was what the soldiers actually did.

after this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be be fulfilled, said, I thirst.

for these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, "a bone of him shall not be broken."

now by these events, that divine prediction of the Prophet had its full accomplishment, when he said, "Behold,

where he stay'd till the death of Herod: so that what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, saying, "Out of Egypt have I called my son," was then fulfill'd.

Then was fulfilled that passage of Jeremy the prophet,

and went to dwell in a town called Nazareth, so that those words of one of the prophets were fulfill'd, "He shall be called a Nazarene."

whereby those words of Esaias the prophet, had their full effect, "the land of Zabulon,

so that what was said by Esaias the prophet, was fulfill'd;

all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,

then was fulfilled what Jeremy the prophet said, "and they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price at which he was valued, by the children of Israel,

whereby was fulfilled what Esaias the prophet said, "Himself took our infirmities, and bare, our diseases."

so that the passage of Esaias the prophet was fulfilled, where he says, "Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

so that this passage of scripture was fulfill'd, "and he was numbred with the transgressors."

for it is of John the prophet Esaias spoke, when he said, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths clear."

but thus it is that God has accomplished what he had foretold by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer.

as for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and their senators, by their not knowing who he was, and by condemning him, they have accomplished the declarations of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day:

for this is the time of vengeance, when all that is writ, shall be accomplished.

and in them is fulfilled that prophecy of Esaias, "by hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.

this passage his disciples did not understand at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, they remembred how they had mounted him, and perceiv'd that those words related to him.

after they had accomplished all that was written concerning him, he was taken down from the cross, and laid in a sepulchre:

but when this corruptible shall be invested with incorruptibility, and this mortal with immortality, then shall be fulfilled that passage of scripture, " death is swallowed up for ever."

it was then, that those words of scripture were accomplished, "Abraham believed God, and he was regarded for it as a man of virtue, and was the favourite of God."

Owe no man any thing, but mutual love: for he that

thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self." the benevolent never does wrong to his neighbour: therefore benevolence is the fulfilling of the law.

so that the moral obligations of the law might be fulfilled by us, in living according to the spiritual, and not the carnal tenor thereof: