Messiah would be despised and rejected

For Unto Us A Child Is Born...

Prophecy Fulfilled in the Person of Jesus of Nazareth

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He would be abandoned and left by His followers

Prophecy:

"Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help."

Psalm 22:11

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Fulfillment:

"All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

"And they all forsook him, and fled. "

Mark 14:27,50

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Prophecy:

"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 53:3

Fulfillment:

And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee. Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew."

Matthew 26:73-74

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Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift:
Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God is the object of
our faith; the only faith that saves is faith in Him.