Matthew 1:22

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Now all this happened in order to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet [Isaiah 7:14], saying,

Cross References

Luke 24:44

Then Jesus said to the apostles, “These are the words that I told you while I was still with you, [when I said] that everything written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms about me needed to be fulfilled.”

Matthew 2:23

and settled in a town called Nazareth, so that it could fulfill what was spoken by the prophets [Isa. 11:1 in the Hebrew text] that Jesus would be called a Nazarene.

Acts 3:18

But this is the way God fulfilled the things which He had predicted through the prophets about the suffering of Christ.

John 18:9

[He said this] so the words He had spoken [previously] would be fulfilled [See 17:12], “I did not lose any of those men you [i.e., God] gave me.”

Matthew 13:35

[This was] so that what was spoken by the prophet would be fulfilled, when he said [Psa. 78:2], “I will open my mouth [to speak] with parables. I will say things that have been hidden from the beginning of time.”

John 17:12

I protected them while I was with them by [the power of] your name which you gave me. [See verse 11]. I guarded them so that not one of them was lost except the “son of destruction” [i.e., Judas]. [This was] so that the Scripture would be fulfilled [Psa. 41:9 (?)].

John 15:25

“But the Helper will come, that is, the Holy Spirit of truth [i.e., who reveals truth]. He comes from the Father and I will send Him to you from the Father. [When He comes] He will give testimony about me.

John 10:35

If God called those people, to whom His message came, “gods” (and Scripture cannot be set aside),

Matthew 13:21

but since he has such a shallow root, he lasts for [only] a short while. Then when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, immediately he falls away [from God].

Matthew 12:17

so what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled when he said,

Matthew 2:15

They stayed there until Herod died, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying [Hosea 11:1], “I [i.e., God] called my Son out of Egypt.”

Matthew 8:17

This was in order to fulfill what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, [Isa. 53:4], “[He] Himself took [care of] our [physical] weaknesses and carried [away] our diseases.”

Matthew 5:17

“Do not think that I came to do away with the Law of Moses or the prophets. I did not come to do away with them, but to fulfill them [i.e., their requirements and predictions].

Luke 21:22

For these are times for punishment [i.e., to be inflicted on Jerusalem], so that everything written [i.e., by the prophets] may be fulfilled [i.e., about Jerusalem’s destruction. See Dan. 9:26-27].

Revelation 17:17

For God has placed on their hearts [the desire] to carry out His purpose, by agreeing to give their kingdom to the beast until God’s words are fulfilled.

Romans 1:2

God had promised this good news a long time ago through His prophets [and had it written] in the holy Scriptures [i.e., the Old Testament].