The evidence. The New Testament repeatedly presents Jesus as fulfilling Hebrew Scripture, and some of the correspondences are striking: the suffering servant "pierced for our transgressions" of Isaiah 53 (Berean Standard Bible); the ruler from Bethlehem of Micah 5:2; the pierced hands and feet, cast lots and mockery of Psalm 22; "nor will You let Your Holy One see decay" of Psalm 16:10 (Berean Standard Bible), applied to the resurrection in Acts 2; the pierced one of Zechariah 12:10. Bubble Bible holds these as curated deep-dives, each pairing the Old Testament anchor with its New Testament application. The counter-case (this is contested interpretation, so every view stands). Critical and Jewish scholarship reads these passages first in their own Old Testament setting: Isaiah's servant is widely read as Israel itself, or the prophet; Psalm 22 as David's own anguish; and the famous Isaiah 7:14 "virgin" rests on the Greek Septuagint's parthenos (virgin) where the Hebrew almah means simply "young woman." On this reading the New Testament writers are applying and re-reading their Scriptures (a recognised ancient Jewish practice) rather than pointing to unambiguous predictions; the dating and original reference of several texts are debated. The believing reading sees genuine, sometimes detailed, prediction; the skeptical reading sees typological reinterpretation after the fact. Both are laid out here, attributed, with no verdict, because whether a fulfilment "counts" as prediction is exactly the kind of interpretive question this file does not settle.
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