9. That his birthplace would suffer a massacre of infants.
OT, Jeremiah 31:15 – This is what the Lord says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are no more.”
NT, Matthew 2:16 – When Herod realized he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.
10. That he would be a Nazarene.
OT, Isaiah 11:1 – A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a branch will bear fruit
NT, Matthew 2:22-23 – But when he (Joseph) heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: “He shall be called a Nazarene.”
11. That he would be zealous for his father.
OT, Psalm 119:139 – My zeal wears me out, for my enemies ignore my words.
NT, John 2:16 – To those who sold the doves he said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!”
12. That he would be filled with God’s spirit.
OT, Isaiah 11:2 – The spirit of the Lord will rest on him – the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel and of power, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
NT, Luke 4:18-19 – The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.