Even in his own land and among his own people, he was not accepted. But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.
John 1.12
It’s sad, but not everyone who met Jesus recognised him as God’s Son, who came to be the Saviour of the world. They should have! After all, God had said for hundreds of years that he would send a Saviour to free his people from sin. The Old Testament has many special promises called prophecies. Long before Jesus was born, these prophecies described what the Saviour would be like. He would be born in Bethlehem,(Micah 5.2) do miracles,(Isaiah 35.5-6) be betrayed by a friend,(Psalm 41.9) have his hands and feet pierced,(Psalm 22.16) suffer and die for our sins,(Isaiah 53.5) and rise from the dead.(Psalm 16.10)
Jesus perfectly fit not just a few, but hundreds of prophecies spoken hundreds of years before his birth. To anybody willing to see, this was powerful proof that Jesus was who he claimed to be!
The probability of one person fulfilling even 48 major prophecies, according to Peter Stoner in Science Speaks, is 1 in 10 to the one hundred and fifty seventh power. That’s the number 10 followed by 156 zeros. The chance of someone fulfilling just eight prophecies is 1 in 10 to the seventeenth power.
The chance that Jesus would fulfil just eight out of hundreds of prophecies is the same as the chance that you could find one specially made pound coin out of a pile of pound coins in a pile two feet deep covering the whole state of Texas!
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