Christ in the Old Testament

Many passages in the Old Testament expressed the idea of a Messianic king, a ruler from David’s family line, whose reign would be righteous, perpetual, universal (Isaiah 7:13 through 9:7; Isaiah 32:1, Isaiah 32:2; Jeremiah 33:15, Jeremiah 33:16; Psalm 2:1-10,...

Dating the Baptism of Christ

In Luke, it is said that John the Baptist began to preach and baptize “in the fifteenth year of Tiberius” (Luke 3:1), and Jesus “was about thirty years of age” (Luke 3:23) when He was baptized by John and began His ministry. If the 15th year of...

Dating the Birth of Christ

The dating for the birth of Christ is based mainly on the death of Herod the Great. (March, 4 BC) The Scriptures state that the birth of Jesus was before and apparently not very long before, this event (Matthew 2). For this reason, Christ’s birth can be placed...