A Spider Upon Catching a Fly
which, while he was beheld by his disciples, “was taken up: and a cloud received him out of their site.” Thus, in death too, Jesus fulfilled the prophesies of the Messiah from the Old Testament, and is thus, the Messiah.
From his birth to his death, Jesus fulfilled hundreds of prophesies of the Messiah, written hundreds, and sometimes thousands of years before his time. Although evidence from Luke and his Acts of the Apostle provide more than enough evidence that Jesus is in fact the Messiah, many may argue that Jesus’ so-called “fulfillments” were “fictions” and are mere creations and exaggerations of the Gospels. However, apart from presenting an accurate record of Jesus in logical order, harmony between Luke and Acts and other books of the Bible as well as the Hebrew scriptures indicate the authenticity of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. For example, twelve miracles of Jesus (from the cure of Peter’s mother to the healing of the ear of Malchus) and two parables (the Parable of the Sower and the Parable of the Tenants) that were discussed in Luke correlate with those in the other Gospels. More so,
As a result, many Jews have rethought Jesus’ position in traditional Jewish belief as being a prophet rather than the true Messiah.