24 Bible Verses about Christ's Origin
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After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.
But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."
Others said, "This is the Christ!" But still others said, "No, for the Christ doesn't come from Galilee, does he?
"What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said, "The son of David."
While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he said, "How is it that the experts in the law say that the Christ is David's son?
Don't the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"
To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.
Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. As for the city and the sanctuary, the people of the coming prince will destroy them. But his end will come speedily like a flood. Until the end of the war that has been decreed there will be destruction.
So know and understand: From the issuing of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince arrives, there will be a period of seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in distressful times.
So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ, fourteen generations.
Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.
The man replied, "This is a remarkable thing, that you don't know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!
Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."
Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God."
because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say, "and to the descendants," referring to many, but "and to your descendant," referring to one, who is Christ.
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