OT Prophecies in Matthew’s Gospel

Perhaps you’ve seen a table like this before, but in Kostenberger, Kellum, and Quarles’ NT Introduction The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown, they provide a table of Jesus’ Fulfillment of OT Prophecy in Matthew’s Gospel. I thought I would include it here because, upon looking at it, there are plenty more fulfillments than I thought there were. Jesus is the Messiah predicted in the Hebrew Scriptures, a theme highlighted especially in Matthew 1-4. “Virtually every significant event in Jesus’ life is shown to fulfill Scripture” (214). It’s a bit cramped, but hopefully still readable.

Event in Jesus’ Life	Matthew	OT Passage
The virgin birth and name of Jesus	1.22-23	Isa 7.14; 8.8,10
Bethlehem, Jesus’ birthplace	2.5-6	Mic 5.2
The flight to Egypt	2.15	Hos 11.1
The slaying of infants by Herod	2.18	Jer 31.15
Jesus called a Nazarene (“branch”)	2.23	Isa 11.1; 53.2
John the Baptist’s ministry	3.3; 11.10	Isa 40.3; Mal 3.1
The temptation of Jesus	4.1-11	Deut 6.13,16; 8.3
The beginning of Jesus’ ministry	4.15-16	Isa 9.1-2
Jesus’ healing ministry	8.17; 11.5; 12.17-21	Isa 53.4; 35.5-6; 42.18; 61.1
Division brought by Jesus	10.35-36	Mic 7.6
Jesus’ gentle style of ministry	12.17-21	Isa 42.1-4
Jesus’ death, burial, resurrection	12.40	Jonah 1.17
Hardened response to Jesus	13.14-15; 15.7-9; 21.33,42	Isa 5.1-2; 6.9-10; 29.13; Ps 118.22-23
Jesus’ teaching in parables	13.35	Ps 78.2
Jesus’ triumphal entry	21.5,9	Isa 62.11; Ps 118.26
Jesus’ cleansing of the temple	21.13	Isa 56.7; Jer 7.11
Jesus as Son and Lord of David	1.1; 22.44	Ps 110.1
Lament over Jerusalem	23.38-39	Jer 12.7; 22.5; Ps 118.26
Judas’ betrayal of Jesus	26.15	Zech 11.12
Peter’s denial	26.31	Zech 13.7
Jesus’ arrest	26.54,56	The Scriptures, the Prophets
Judas’s death	27.9-10	Zech 11.12-13; Jer 32.6-9
Jesus the righteous sufferer	27.34-35,39,43,46,48	Pss 22.1,7-8,18; 69.21