Matthew 26:47 ¶ And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people. 48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast. 49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him. 50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. 51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and smote off his ear. 52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. 53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? 55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. 56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
We already knew that Judas was the traitor. The Old Testament
Scriptures are full of prophecies about the Messiah and His suffering. First
read Psalm 22, the first verse of Jesus quotes from the Cross, and then Isaiah 52:13
through chapter 53. These are not the only references to the Messiah, the Lord
Jesus Christ, but are prominent ones.
Psalm 22:1 ¶ «To the chief
Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.» My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my
roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the
daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But thou art holy, O thou that
inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4 Our
fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. 5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered:
they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. 6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of
men, and despised of the people. 7 All
they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head,
saying, 8 He trusted on the LORD that he
would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb:
thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. 10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art
my God from my mother’s belly.
Psalm 22:11 ¶ Be not far
from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of
Bashan have beset me round. 13 They
gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones
are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a
potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the
dust of death. 16 For dogs have
compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my
hands and my feet. 17 I may tell all my
bones: they look and stare upon me. 18
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. 19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my
strength, haste thee to help me. 20
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for
thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
Psalm 22:22 ¶ I will
declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I
praise thee. 23 Ye that fear the LORD,
praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the
seed of Israel. 24 For he hath not
despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his
face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. 25 My praise shall be of thee in the great
congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they
shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. 27 All the ends of the world shall remember and
turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he
is the governor among the nations. 29
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go
down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be
accounted to the Lord for a generation. 31
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that
shall be born, that he hath done this.
Isaiah 52:13 ¶ Behold, my
servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very
high. 14 As many were astonied at thee;
his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of
men: 15 So shall he sprinkle many
nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been
told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they
consider.
Isaiah 53:1
¶ Who hath believed our report? and to
whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of
a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there
is no beauty that we should desire him. 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.
Isaiah 53:4 ¶ Surely he
hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he
was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we
have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed,
and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to
the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not
his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison
and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out
of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was
any deceit in his mouth.
Isaiah 53:10 ¶ Yet it
pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make
his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,
and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and
shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;
for he shall bear their iniquities. 12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall
divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto
death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
For the power that God could command on Jesus’ behalf see the
reference to the slain 185,000 Assyrians in 2Kings 19:35.
2Kings 19:35 ¶ And it came
to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp
of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose
early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Commentators have said the Isaiah 1:5,6, Micah 5:1, Zechariah
12:10, Zechariah 11:12,13, Psalm 41:9, Zechariah 13:7, Psalm 69:21, and Psalm
34:20 are among the Old Testament verses being fulfilled in these last chapters
of Matthew.
Isaiah 1:5 Why should ye be
stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and
the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole
of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and
bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up,
neither mollified with ointment.
Micah 5:1 ¶ Now gather
thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they
shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
Zechariah 12:10 And I will
pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit
of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and
shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Zechariah 11:12 And I said
unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they
weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.13
And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that
I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them
to the potter in the house of the LORD.
Psalm 41:9 Yea, mine own
familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up
his heel against me.
Zechariah 13:7 ¶ Awake, O
sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the
LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will
turn mine hand upon the little ones.
Psalm 69:21 They gave me
also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Psalm 34:20 He keepeth all
his bones: not one of them is broken.
Please keep these in mind as we read the rest of this chapter and
the next chapters.
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