where he stayed until Herod died. This was done to make come true what the Lord had said through the prophet, "I called my Son out of Egypt."

and made his home in a town named Nazareth. And so what the prophets had said came true: "He will be called a Nazarene."

"Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets. I have not come to do away with them, but to make their teachings come true.

He did this to make come true what the prophet Isaiah had said, "He himself took our sickness and carried away our diseases."

He did this so as to make come true what God had said through the prophet Isaiah:

He did this to make come true what the prophet had said, "I will use parables when I speak to them; I will tell them things unknown since the creation of the world."

But it does not sink deep into them, and they don't last long. So when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, they give up at once.

He said, "Praise the LORD God of Israel! He has kept the promise he made to my father David, when he told him,

You have kept the promise you made to my father David; today every word has been fulfilled.

In the first year that Cyrus of Persia was emperor, the LORD made what he had said through the prophet Jeremiah come true. He prompted Cyrus to issue the following command and send it out in writing to be read aloud everywhere in his empire:

For those will be 'The Days of Punishment,' to make come true all that the Scriptures say.

Then he said to them, "These are the very things I told you about while I was still with you: everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the writings of the prophets, and the Psalms had to come true."

We know that what the scripture says is true forever; and God called those people gods, the people to whom his message was given.

so that what the prophet Isaiah had said might come true: "Lord, who believed the message we told? To whom did the Lord reveal his power?"

"God has blinded their eyes and closed their minds, so that their eyes would not see, and their minds would not understand, and they would not turn to me, says God, for me to heal them."

This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: 'They hated me for no reason at all.'

While I was with them, I kept them safe by the power of your name, the name you gave me. I protected them, and not one of them was lost, except the man who was bound to be lost---so that the scripture might come true.

(He said this so that what he had said might come true: "Father, I have not lost even one of those you gave me.")

This was done to make the scripture come true: "Not one of his bones will be broken."

And there is another scripture that says, "People will look at him whom they pierced."

God announced long ago through all the prophets that his Messiah had to suffer; and he made it come true in this way.

For the people who live in Jerusalem and their leaders did not know that he is the Savior, nor did they understand the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. Yet they made the prophets' words come true by condemning Jesus.

And after they had done everything that the Scriptures say about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

For God has placed in their hearts the will to carry out his purpose by acting together and giving to the beast their power to rule until God's words come true.