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Creation
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, ordered the world by His word, and made humanity, male and female, in His own image to rule and care for it. The New Testament adds that everything was made through the Word who became flesh in Jesus.
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The Passover and the exodus
On the night God struck down the firstborn of Egypt, every Israelite household sheltered behind the blood of a lamb on its doorframe, and God passed over them. Pharaoh released the people, and when his army pursued them God parted the sea so Israel crossed on dry ground.
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Abraham
Abraham, first called Abram, was the patriarch whom God called out of Ur to a land He would show him, promising him descendants, a great name, and blessing for all the families of the earth. Genesis says he believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.
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David
David was the shepherd from Bethlehem who became Israel's second king. God promised him a house and a throne that would endure forever, and many psalms are attributed to him. The Gospels present Jesus as the Son of David, the promised heir to that throne.
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Jonah
Jonah was the prophet from Gath-hepher sent to preach in Nineveh. He fled by sea, was swallowed by a great fish for three days and three nights, and after his deliverance preached to Nineveh, which repented. Jesus named the sign of Jonah as the one sign His generation would receive.
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Judah
Judah was the fourth son of Jacob and Leah, the ancestor of the tribe that gave Israel its kings. Jacob's blessing promised that the scepter would not depart from Judah, and through his son Perez the line runs to Boaz, Jesse, and David.
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Solomon
Solomon was David's son by Bathsheba who succeeded him as king, asked God for wisdom, and built the first temple in Jerusalem. His reign was the height of Israel's peace and wealth, but his foreign marriages and idolatry led God to announce the division of the kingdom after his death.
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Egypt
Egypt is the great kingdom on the Nile where Jacob's family settled, where Israel was enslaved for generations, and from which God brought them out at the exodus. Centuries later Joseph carried the infant Jesus there to escape Herod, and Matthew heard in the return the words of Hosea: out of Egypt I called my son.
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Resurrection
Resurrection is God raising the dead to bodily life. The Old Testament glimpses it in Job, the Psalms, Isaiah, and Daniel; the Gospels narrate the raising of Jesus on the third day; and Paul calls Him the firstfruits, the first of a harvest that includes everyone who belongs to Him.
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The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is God present and active among His people. He hovers over creation, fills prophets and craftsmen in the Old Testament, descends on Jesus at His baptism, is promised by Jesus as the Advocate, and comes on the church at Pentecost, giving power to witness, new birth, gifts, and fruit.
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The Kingdom of God
The Kingdom of God is God's active reign, promised through Israel's prophets and announced by Jesus as having come near in Himself. Jesus taught its character in parables, displayed it in healings, and said it would grow until His return.
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Lamb of God
Lamb of God is the title John the Baptist gave Jesus at the Jordan: the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. It gathers up the Passover lamb, the lamb Abraham said God would provide, and Isaiah's servant led like a lamb, and Revelation makes the Lamb its central figure.
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Son of David
Son of David is a royal title for the promised king from David's line. Matthew opens with it, blind Bartimaeus and the crowds at the entry use it of Jesus, and Jesus Himself raises the question of how David's son can also be David's Lord.
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Son of Man
Son of Man is the title Jesus used for Himself more than any other. In the Gospels it names the one who has authority to forgive sins, who must suffer and rise, and who will come with the clouds; Daniel's vision of one like a son of man receiving an everlasting kingdom stands behind that last sense.
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2 Samuel 7:12-16
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Deuteronomy 18:15-19
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Genesis 12:3
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Genesis 22:1-18
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Genesis 3:15
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Genesis 49:10
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Isaiah 42:1-4
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Numbers 24:17
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The fall
Tempted by the serpent, the woman and the man ate from the one tree God had forbidden. Shame, blame, and curse followed, and they were sent out of the garden. In the same scene God spoke the first promise: the offspring of the woman would crush the serpent's head.
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Adam
Adam was the first human being, formed by God from the dust of the ground and placed in the garden of Eden to work and keep it. With Eve he disobeyed God's one command and was sent out of the garden. Genesis, Luke's genealogy, and Paul's letters all treat him as the head of the human family.
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Eve
Eve was the first woman, made by God from Adam's side as his partner and named by him because she would be the mother of all the living. Deceived by the serpent, she ate the forbidden fruit and gave it to her husband. God's promise that her offspring would crush the serpent is spoken in her hearing.
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Eden
Eden was the garden God planted in the east and where He placed the first humans, with the tree of life at its center. After the fall, God sent the man and woman out and set cherubim to guard the way back to the tree of life.
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The covenant with Abraham
God bound Himself by covenant to Abram: descendants as many as the stars, a land for them, and an everlasting relationship in which God would be their God. Abram believed, and it was credited to him as righteousness. God later gave him the name Abraham and the sign of circumcision.
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The covenant at Sinai
Three months after leaving Egypt, Israel camped before Mount Sinai. God offered to make them His treasured possession, a kingdom of priests, and spoke the ten commandments from the mountain in fire and smoke. Moses sealed the covenant with the blood of sacrifices and the people promised to obey.
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Moses
Moses was the Levite child drawn out of the Nile and raised in Pharaoh's house, whom God called at the burning bush to bring Israel out of Egypt. He led the people through the sea, received the law at Sinai, and guided them for forty years to the edge of the promised land.
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Passover
Passover is the yearly feast that remembers the night God struck Egypt and passed over the houses marked with a lamb's blood, then brought Israel out of slavery. The lamb without blemish, the blood on the doorframe, and the meal eaten in haste became Israel's founding memory. Jesus chose Passover for His last supper and died at Passover, and the New Testament calls Him our Passover lamb.
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Sacrifice and atonement
Sacrifice and atonement is the biblical pattern by which sin is covered and fellowship with God restored through a life given in place of the guilty. From the garments of skin in Eden and the ram in place of Isaac to the Passover lamb and the offerings of the law, the Old Testament teaches that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. The New Testament proclaims that Jesus offered Himself once for all.
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The call of Abraham
God told Abram to leave his country and family for a land He would show him, promising to make him a great nation, to bless him, and to bless all the families of the earth through him. Abram went, at seventy-five, and built altars in the land of Canaan.
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Jacob
Jacob was the younger twin son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, who received the birthright and blessing and was renamed Israel after wrestling with God. His twelve sons became the tribes of Israel, and in old age he brought the whole family down to Egypt.
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Noah
Noah was the righteous man whom God chose to preserve life through the flood. He built an ark at God's command, brought his family and the animals inside, and after the waters receded received God's covenant never again to destroy the earth by flood, sealed by the rainbow.
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The covenant with David
When David wanted to build a house for God, God answered that He would build David a house: a descendant whose throne would be established forever, whom God would treat as a son. The promise outlasted David's failures and the fall of his kingdom.
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Connections around Jesus
Jesus participates in Creation
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJohn says all things were made through the Word who became flesh, and Paul says all things were created through and for the Son.
Evidence:The Passover and the exodus symbolizes Jesus
Historic Christian readingHigh confidenceThe New Testament repeatedly presents Jesus in Passover terms: John the Baptist calls Him the Lamb of God, Paul calls Him our Passover lamb, Jesus dies at Passover, and Luke calls His coming death an exodus. Christians have read the whole event as a pattern of the redemption He accomplished.
Other responsible views
- Pattern, not prediction: The exodus narrative is history, not prophecy about Jesus. The correspondence is drawn by the New Testament writers looking back, which is why this is labeled a historic Christian reading rather than explicit fulfillment.
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Jesus is descended from Abraham
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLineage: Matthew 1Matthew's opening line calls Jesus the son of Abraham and begins the genealogy with him.
Evidence:Jesus is descended from David
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLineage: Luke 3Luke's genealogy traces Jesus's descent to David through Nathan, and on to Adam.
Evidence:Jesus is descended from David
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLineage: Matthew 1Matthew's genealogy traces Jesus's legal descent through Joseph to David. Luke's genealogy also reaches David by a different line; FaithGraph records the two lists separately and never merges them.
Evidence:Other responsible views
- Luke's genealogy: Luke 3:23-38 traces descent from David through Nathan rather than Solomon. The relationship between the two lists is discussed in the Lineage section.
Jesus parallels Jonah
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus explicitly sets His burial and rising alongside Jonah's three days in the fish, and His preaching alongside Jonah's preaching at Nineveh.
Evidence:Jesus is descended from Judah
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLineage: Matthew 1Matthew's genealogy names Judah in its second line, and Hebrews says it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah.
Jesus is descended from Solomon
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceLineage: Matthew 1Matthew's genealogy runs from David through Solomon and the kings of Judah to Joseph. Luke's list runs through Nathan instead; FaithGraph keeps the two separate.
Evidence:Other responsible views
- Luke's genealogy: Luke 3:31 traces the line from David through Nathan, not Solomon.
Jesus travels to Egypt
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceMatthew records the child's journey to Egypt and return.
Evidence:Jesus teaches Resurrection
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus names Himself the resurrection and the life and foretells His own rising on the third day.
Evidence:Jesus teaches The Holy Spirit
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceIn the farewell discourse Jesus promises the Advocate and describes His work.
Evidence:Jesus teaches The Kingdom of God
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceMark summarizes the whole of Jesus's preaching as the announcement of the Kingdom of God.
Evidence:Jesus bears the title Lamb of God
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJohn the Baptist twice points to Jesus as the Lamb of God, once adding that He takes away the sin of the world.
Jesus bears the title Son of David
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceThe crowds at the entry hail Jesus as Son of David, Bartimaeus addresses Him so, and Matthew opens with the title.
Evidence:Jesus bears the title Son of Man
Explicit in ScriptureHigh confidenceJesus calls Himself the Son of Man when He forgives the paralytic and when He predicts His suffering, and He asks the disciples who people say the Son of Man is.
Evidence:Jesus explicitly fulfills 2 Samuel 7:12-16
Explicit fulfillmentHigh confidenceGabriel tells Mary that her son will receive the throne of His father David and reign forever, language drawn from God's promise to David. Peter says David foresaw the resurrection of the promised heir, and Paul says God brought Israel a Savior from David's offspring "as He promised". These are explicit claims of fulfillment, not later inference.
Jesus explicitly fulfills Deuteronomy 18:15-19
Explicit fulfillmentHigh confidencePeter applies Moses' promise directly to Jesus, and Stephen cites the same verse in his defense.
Evidence:Jesus explicitly fulfills Genesis 12:3
Explicit fulfillmentHigh confidencePaul writes that the Scripture announced the Gospel in advance to Abraham with the words "all nations will be blessed through you", and identifies Christ as Abraham's offspring.
Jesus is read as fulfilling Genesis 22:1-18
Historic Christian readingMedium confidenceAbraham's words that God Himself will provide the lamb, the beloved only son carried up the mountain, and the ram given in his place have been read since the early church as a foreshadowing of the Father giving His Son. Hebrews and Paul echo the scene without stating the typology outright.
Other responsible views
- A test of faith in its own right: Genesis presents the binding of Isaac as the testing of Abraham's faith and the confirmation of the covenant oath. The Christological reading is an added layer, held widely but not stated by Genesis itself.
Jesus is read as fulfilling Genesis 3:15
Historic Christian readingMedium confidenceGenesis 3:15 says the offspring of the woman will crush the serpent's head. From the early church onward, Christians have read this as the first promise of Christ's victory over evil. The New Testament alludes to it (Romans 16:20) without quoting it directly, so this is labeled a historic Christian reading.
Other responsible views
- General promise of human victory over evil: Some interpreters read the verse as a broader statement about humanity and the serpent, with Christ as its climactic instance.
Jesus is read as fulfilling Genesis 49:10
Historic Christian readingMedium confidenceJacob's blessing promises that the scepter will not depart from Judah until the one to whom it belongs comes and the nations obey him. Revelation's Lion of the tribe of Judah and Hebrews' note that Jesus descended from Judah show the New Testament drawing on Judah's royal line, though neither quotes this verse.
Other responsible views
- Fulfilled in David's dynasty: Many read the blessing as fulfilled in the kingship of David's house, with the messianic sense as its fullest reach; the Hebrew of the phrase often rendered until Shiloh comes is itself uncertain.
Jesus explicitly fulfills Isaiah 42:1-4
Explicit fulfillmentHigh confidenceMatthew introduces the quotation with the formula that this was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah.
Evidence:Jesus is read as fulfilling Numbers 24:17
Historic Christian readingMedium confidenceBalaam's oracle of a star from Jacob and a scepter from Israel has been read by Christians since the early centuries as pointing to the Messiah, and Matthew's star over Bethlehem is often connected to it. The New Testament does not quote the verse, so this is labeled a historic reading.
Other responsible views
- David as the nearer referent: Many interpreters see the oracle fulfilled first in David, who conquered Moab and Edom, with a messianic sense developing later in Jewish and Christian reading.