A Jewish man named Barry Levanthal said he was amazed about what the Old Testament said about the Messiah. It says in Isaiah 53 that this one who had come from a humble family would be rejected and would bear the punishment for others. That he would be pierced through for our sins, and would be whipped, but would be meek and silent as a lamb led to the slaughter. He was supposed to be buried as a pauper, but ended up in a rich man's grave---all this without ever committing any violence himself. Every one of these details, written 700 years before the time of Christ, matches precisely with the purpose of Jesus' life and the events surrounding his life and his death.

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