Jesus Christ in the Old and New Testaments

At this time of year, the church celebrates the miraculous birth of Jesus according to the Scriptures. The miraculous birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem stable confounded many expectations of the Messiah based on contemporary Jewish interpretations of Old Testament prophecies. Jesus’ Messianic identity was still problematic to his followers even after the resurrection. Like the disciples on the Road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35), we need Jesus to come alongside and “explain what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself” through the Holy Spirit so that our hearts will burn again with all that He opened to them. In a short book, Hays does a really good job of showing how the Gospels do just that.

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