"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son…"

Note: Some have said that "virgin" means "young woman" here. Not only is such a translation incorrect when the oldest and best manuscripts are studied, but a young woman giving birth is hardly a sign.

"But the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God… You will be with child and give birth to a son…’ ‘How will this be,’ Mary asked the angel, ‘since I am a virgin?’"

"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times."

"After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, ‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.’ When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. In Bethlehem in Judea,’ they replied, ‘for this is what the prophet has written…’"

John 7:40-43

"On hearing his words, some of the people said, ‘Surely this man is the Prophet.’ Others said, ‘He is the Christ.’ Still others asked, ‘How can the Christ come from Galilee? Does not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from David's family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?’ Thus the people were divided because of Jesus."

Note: I include the second quotation because it shows that not only were the Jews expecting the Messiah to come from Bethlehem but some in this crowd may have accepted him as the Messiah had they known where he was born. Since Jesus moved to Galilee, they did not know he was born in Bethlehem. This also goes to show that the common, everyday Jew knew about the prophecies of the coming Messiah.

"The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his."

Note: The rule passed from one with at least some Jewish ancestry to a non-Jew shortly after Jesus’ birth, which disturbed the Jews greatly. If Jesus or some other person living at that time was not the Messiah, the Jewish scripture was false.

"… ‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.’ When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. In Bethlehem in Judea,’ they replied, ‘for this is what the prophet has written…’"

"Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."

"When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, ‘Hosanna!’ ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ‘Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!’ ‘Hosanna in the highest!’"

"He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not."

"He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him."

"Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me."

Note: Though this obviously sounds like crucifixion, crucifixion had not yet been invented when this was written.

"When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified him, along with the criminals--one on his right, the other on his left"

John 19:33

"But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs."

"because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay."

"’Don't be alarmed,’ he said. ‘You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.’"

From the time of the decree to restore and build Jerusalem until the coming of the Messiah would be 7 weeks (49 years) plus 62 weeks (434 years), yielding 69 weeks or 483 years, all but 7 of the 490 years involved in the 70 weeks [total mentioned in Daniel]. Note the following table: