expectation. And all this was exactly fulfilled in Jesus (Short Hist, of Revealed Rel., 8 and 18).
12. What did they prophesy of His birth?
That He should be born at Bethlehem of a Virgin, of the tribe of Juda and family of David, and should be adored by kings from distant countries (Isai. vii. 14, xi. 1, and lx. 6; Mich. v. 2; Ps. lxxi. 10).
13. What account do they give us of His life?
They give us an account of His public teaching, of His miraculous cures, of His forbearing charity and meekness, of His entering into Jerusalem upon an ass, etc. (Isai. lxi. and xxxv. 3, etc.; Zach. ix. 9).
14. What do they relate of His Passion and death?
They relate almost all, even the least circumstances; for example, that they would sell Him for thirty pieces of silver, strike Him, pull out His hair, spit in His face, give Him gall and vinegar to drink, pierce His hands and feet, and cast lots for His garment; that those who should see Him would mock Him, and wag their heads, saying: 'He hoped in the Lord, let Him deliver Him ' (Zach. xi. 12, 13; Isai. 1. 6; Ps. xxi. 7, etc., and lxviii. 22).
The prophets did indeed promise a great King, but not a king of this world, as the Jews are still expecting; otherwise they would not have described Him as 'a man of sorrows' (Isai. liii. 3, 4), nor called him the 'reproach of men, and the outcast of the people' (Ps. xxi. 7); but a King of a spiritual and supernatural kingdom of God (the Church), which was indeed to begin and spread on earth, but is to be consummated only in Heaven, and to last for ever.
15. What do they say of His Resurrection and Ascension, and of His sending down the Holy Ghost?
They say that His sepulchre shall be glorious, and that He shall not see corruption, but shall mount above the Heaven of heavens, and pour out His Spirit upon all flesh (Ps. XV. 10, and lxvii. 19, 34; Isai. xi. 10; Joel ii. 28, 29).
