Prophecies of Jesus-15

1. Messiah would be rejected by his own people.

   
   

   Old Testament Scripture. Psm. 69: 8; Isa. 53:3

   
   

   New Testament Fulfillment. John 1:11; 7:5

Psm. 69:8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

The 55th prophecy in Psalms (Psm. 69:8-9, fulfilled in Christ. Quoted in John 2:17; Rom. 15:3). Next, Psm. 69:19.

I am become...

היה

hâyâh

Definition:

1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out

1a) (Qal)

1a1) -----

1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass

1a1b) to come about, come to pass

1a2) to come into being, become

1a2a) to arise, appear, come

1a2b) to become

1a2b1) to become

1a2b2) to become like

1a2b3) to be instituted, be established

1a3) to be

1a3a) to exist, be in existence

1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)

1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)

1a3d) to accompany, be with

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about

1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

Part of Speech: verb

a stranger...

זוּר

zûr

Definition:

1) to be strange, be a stranger

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to become estranged

1a2) strange, another, stranger, foreigner, an enemy (participle)

1a3) loathsome (of breath) (participle)

1a4) strange woman, prostitute, harlot (metonymy)

1b) (Niphal) to be estranged

1c) (Hophal) to be a stranger, be one alienated

Part of Speech: verb

This prophecy proves that Christ had half-brothers and Mary had other children after Christ was born.

unto my brethren,...

אח

'âch

Definition:

1) brother

1a) brother of same parents

1b) half-brother (same father)

1c) relative, kinship, same tribe

1d) each to the other (reciprocal relationship)

1e) (figuratively) of resemblance

Part of Speech: noun masculine

and an alien...

נכרי

nokrı̂y

Definition:

1) foreign, alien

1a) foreign

1b) foreigner (substantive)

1c) foreign woman, harlot

1d) unknown, unfamiliar (figuratively)

Part of Speech: adjective

His own relatives hated him even though he had zeal for the Lord (Psm. 69:8-9). Their insults against God were directed to him. When he was in grief, he fasted (a sign of mourning; cf. Jdg. 20:26; 1Sam. 31:13; 2Sam. 12:16; 1Kgs. 21:27; Neh. 1:4) and wore sackcloth (another sign of mourning; cf. Gen. 37:34; 1Kgs. 21:27; Neh. 9:1; Est. 4:1-4; Psm. 30:11; 35:13; Lam. 2:10; Dan. 9:3). Even then his enemies (including judges, those who sat at the gate) and drunkards sang derisively about him.

unto my mother's...

אם

'êm

Definition:

1) mother

1a) of humans

1b) of Deborah’s relationship to the people (figuratively)

1c) of animals

2) point of departure or division

Part of Speech: noun feminine

children...

בּן

bên

Definition:

1) son, grandson, child, member of a group

1a) son, male child

1b) grandson

1c) children (plural - male and female)

1d) youth, young men (plural)

1e) young (of animals)

1f) sons (as characterization, i.e. sons of injustice [for unrighteous men] or sons of God [for angels])

1g) people (of a nation) (plural)

1h) of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (figuratively)

1i) a member of a guild, order, class

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Isa. 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Fulfilled in: John 1:10-11; 8:48; 10:20.

Man of Sorrows

He was a man of sorrows, because He carried our sorrows (Isa. 53:3-4). He personally had no sin, sickness, pain, or suffering on account of His own sins, but we have these in abundance; and since He came into the world to carry them for us, He had to become identified with us in our sufferings by taking them upon Himself and bearing them unto death, so that we might be free from them. Therefore, sorrow became a characteristic of His life during His sufferings in particular. He no doubt had sorrows from the time His sensitive, pure, sinless, and untainted life began to contact the sins, depravities, corruptions, sicknesses, diseases, and pains of others.

Sorrows... Hebrew: mak’ob, grief. Translated "sorrows" (Isa. 53:3-4; Exo. 3:7; Psm. 32:10); "sorrow" (Ecc. 1:18; Jer. 30:15; 45:3; Lam. 1:12, 1:18); "grief" (2Ch. 6:29; Psm. 69:26); and "pain" (Job 33:19).

Grief Defined

Hebrew: choliy, malady. Translated "grief" (Isa. 53:3-4); "disease" (2Kgs. 1:2; 8:8-9; 2Ch. 16:12; 21:18; Ecc. 6:2); "sick" (Isa. 1:5); and "sickness" (Isa. 38:9, 38:12; Deu. 7:15; 28:59, 28:61; 1Kgs. 17:17; 2Kgs. 13:14; 2Ch. 21:15, 21:19; Psm. 41:3; Ecc. 5:17). The words grief and griefs in Isa. 53:3-4 should have been translated sickness as the Hebrew word is translated elsewhere and recognized by many versions. Christ was not only acquainted with diseases and sicknesses in the sense of being able to discern and diagnose them, and by being familiar with them in others, but He actually bore them in His own body while hanging on the cross and becoming a substitute for others.

The nation Israel despised and rejected the Servant who experienced sorrows (maḵ'ōḇ, “anguish or grief,” also used in Isa. 53:4) and… suffering (ḥŏlı̂. He was the kind of individual people do not normally want to look at; they were repulsed by Him. For these reasons the nation did not esteem Him; they did not think He was important. Yet He was and is the most important Person in the world, for He is the Servant of the Lord.

John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

In some ways this is one of the saddest verses in the Bible. The Logos went to His own home but He had no welcome. Jesus went to His own people, the nation Israel, (The Jews)but they as a whole rejected Him. In rejecting Him, they refused to accept Him as the Revelation sent by the Father and refused to obey His commands. Isaiah long before had prophesied of this Jewish national unbelief: “Who has believed our message?” (Isa. 53:1)

John 7:5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.

They knew His miracles and no doubt accepted Him as a prophet, but not as the Messiah, for they had found Him declining the kingship (John 6:15) which was one of the Messiah’s chief offices. They could not believe that He would do this if He were really the Messiah.

It did not seem rational to Jesus’ brothers for Him not to show off His glory. If He really was what He claimed to be, they reasoned, He should publicly demonstrate it. They advised Him to display Himself in a powerful, brilliant way: Show Yourself to the world. But God’s way was a public display on a cross of humiliation. John explained that even His own brothers did not believe in Him. This sad note sounds again (cf. John 1:10-11; 12:37). Proximity to Jesus, either in a family or as a disciple, does not guarantee faith.