Matthew 1:22

Matthew notes that these events fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet. It frames the birth as the realization of prophecy.

Cross-references · 21

• Luke 24:44He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”
• 1 Kgs 8:15He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
• Matt 2:23and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
• Acts 3:18But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
• 1 Kgs 8:24who has kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.
• John 17:12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
• John 19:36–37For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”
• John 18:9that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”
• Ezra 1:1Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
• Matt 12:17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
• Matt 13:35that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
• John 15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
• John 12:38–40that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
• John 10:35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
• Matt 2:15and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
• Matt 13:21yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
• Matt 8:17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”
• Matt 5:17“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
• Luke 21:22For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
• Rev 17:17For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
• Acts 13:27–29For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

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