9 Bible Verses about Foretelling Christ's Death
Most Relevant Verses
And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one will be cut off (destroyed) (killed) and shall have nothing. The people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be by the flood of war and desolations.
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great. He will divide the spoils with the strong. This is because he poured out his life unto death. He was numbered with the transgressors. He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
In his humiliation his judgment was taken away. Who will declare his generation? For his life is taken from the earth.
The Father loves me. Therefore I lay down my life and I take it back again.
No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down voluntarily. I have authority (jurisdiction) (right) to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment from my Father.
Thus the word of Jesus would be fulfilled when he spoke about the kind of death he would experience.
Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so the Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth [the grave].
The crowd answered him: We have heard from the law that the Christ lives forever. Why do you say the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
