What do the Hebrew Scriptures say about the Messiah?
1. Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2. For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot. And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. 3. He was despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their face, He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4. Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. 6. All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way, but the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.
Other Messianic References
From the Jewish Scriptures
Isaiah 9:6-7
Messiah to be born and to reign on King David’s throne.
Micah 5:2
His place of birth… Bethlehem.
Daniel 9:24-26
Messiah to come and be “cut off” before the destruction of the Temple.
Isaiah 49:6-7
Messiah to be a light to the nation of Israel and to the Gentiles as well.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Jeremiah prophesies God’s new covenant with Israel.
Deuteronomy 18:15-19
Moses proclaims that a prophet like him will arise whom the people must obey.
Zechariah 9:9
Israel’s King endowed with salvation, humble and mounted on a donkey.
Daniel 7:13-14
Messiah to be given an everlasting dominion over all nations.