Matthew 2:5-6

How appropriate for the first day of the Lenten Season. For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, the Word made flesh, to fulfill prophesy from the beginning of time that whoever would believe in Him would be saved!

Matthew clearly records how the Jewish religious authorities, who became Christ’s enemies later, unintentionally affirmed that Jesus had fulfilled a messianic prophecy in His birth.

Matthew 2: 5-6

⁵ So they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet:

⁶ ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,

Are not the least among the rulers of Judah;

For out of you shall come a Ruler

Who will shepherd My people Israel.’ ”

 ²“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting.” 

Micah 5:2

⁴² Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?” 

John 7:42

³The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising. 

Isaiah 60:3

¹⁰The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people. 

Genesis 49:10