27 Bible Verses about Said To Be The Christ
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others said, "He is the Christ"; but others said, "No, surely the Christ does not come from Galilee?
Saul became more and more vigorous. He put the Jewish residents in Damascus to confusion by his proof that Jesus was the Christ;
explaining and quoting passages to prove that the messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead, and that "the Jesus I proclaim to you is the messiah."
By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.
for he publicly refuted the Jews with might and main, showing from the scriptures that the messiah was Jesus.
Who is the real liar? who but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is 'antichrist,' he who disowns the Father and the Son.
The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"
One of the criminals who had been hung also abused him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well."
(John testified to him with the cry, 'This was he of whom I said, my successor has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.')
That is he of whom I said, 'The man who is to succeed me has taken precedence of me, for he preceded me.'
Yet here he is, opening his lips in public, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities have really discovered that he is the Christ?
So the disciple who was Jesus' favourite said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" Hearing it was the Lord, Simon Peter threw on his blouse (he was stripped for work) and jumped into the water,
"Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? We know who you are, you are God's holy One."
"Ha! Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"
And whenever the unclean spirits saw him they fell down before him, screaming, "You are the Son of God!"
From many people daemons were also driven out, clamouring aloud, "You are God's son!" But he checked them and refused to let them say anything, as they knew he was the Christ.
Now when the army-captain and his men who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and all that happened, they were dreadfully afraid; they said, "This man was certainly a son of God!"
He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"
"Yes, Lord," she said, "I do believe you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world" ??28 and with these words she went off to call her sister Mary, telling her secretly, "The Teacher is here, and he is calling for you."
Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him.
