Split off the unrelated thread, as per your suggestion, Dave.
http://www.islamchristianforum.com/index.php?topic=3194.msg13497#msg13497Do you suppose he would have to cover every single detail of the Gospel narratives in his letters?
Indeed. The Gospel is the very thing that
he preached,
persuading in synagogues, and unto gentiles as well. Paul
preached Christ crucified just as we do in this forum.
1Cr 1:23 But
we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
Just as prophesied in Psalms:Psalms 22:17 For dogs have surrounded me; a band of evildoers has encompassed me,
like a lion, my hands and feet. 18. I tell about all my bones. They look and gloat over me. 19.
They share my garments among themselves and cast lots for my raiment.That was penned before crucifixion was ever even invented. What do you suppose is meant by "like a lion, my hands and feet"? Like a lion licking them? Or using tooth or claw to
pierce them?
That prophecy is confirmed, in the crucifixion of our Messiah, Dave:
Mat 27:35 And
they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They
parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did
they cast lots.
Mar 15:24 And when they had
crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.
Luk 23:33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they
crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. 34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And
they parted his raiment, and cast lots.Jhn 19:18 Where
they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. 19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Jhn 19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus,
took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also [his] coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
Isaiah 53:1. Who would have believed our report, and to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed? 2. And he came up like a sapling before it, and like a root from dry ground, he had neither form nor comeliness; and we saw him that he had no appearance. Now shall we desire him? 3.
Despised and rejected by men, a man of pains and accustomed to illness, and as one who hides his face from us, despised and
we held him of no account. 4.
Indeed, he bore our illnesses, and our pains-he carried them, yet we accounted him as plagued, smitten by God and oppressed. 5.
But he was pained because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement of our welfare was upon him,
and with his wound we were healed. 6. We all went astray like sheep, we have turned, each one on his way, and
the Lord accepted his prayers for the iniquity of all of us. 7.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he would not open his mouth; like a lamb to the slaughter he would be brought, and like a ewe that is mute before her shearers, and he would not open his mouth. 8. From imprisonment and from judgment he is taken, and his generation who shall tell?
For he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the transgression of my people, a plague befell them. 9. And
he gave his grave to the wicked, and to the wealthy with his kinds of death,
because he committed no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. 10. And the Lord wished to crush him, He made him ill; if his soul makes itself restitution, he shall see children, he shall prolong his days, and
God's purpose shall prosper in his hand. 11. From the toil of his soul he would see, he would be satisfied; with his knowledge My servant would vindicate the just for many,
and their iniquities he would bear. 12. Therefore, I will allot him a portion in public, and with the strong he shall share plunder,
because he poured out his soul to death, and with transgressors he was counted; and he bore the sin of many, and interceded for the transgressors.Jhn 1:23 He said, I [am] the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.Psalms 22:17 For dogs have surrounded me; a band of evildoers has encompassed me, like a lion, my hands and feet. 18.
I tell about all my bones. They look and gloat over me. 19. They share my garments among themselves and cast lots for my raiment.
The passover Lamb of God was crucified, and not a bone of Him was broken.
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