Whom they have pierced, and

forthwith came there out blood

they shall mourn ...'.

and water. And he that saw it

bare record, and his record is

true: and he knoweth that he

saith true, that ye might

believe. For these things were

done, that the Scripture should

be fulfilled, A bone of Him

shall not be broken. And again

another Scripture saith, They

shall look on Him Whom they

His heart was to be broken.

Prophecy: Psalm 22:14

Fulfilment: John 19:34

`But one of the soldiers ...

`I am poured out like water, and

pierced His side, and forthwith

all My bones are out of joint: My

there came out blood and

heart is like wax; it is melted in

water'.

the midst of My bowels'.

He was to be buried in a rich man's grave..

Prophecy: Isaiah 53:9

Fulfilment: Matthew 27:57-60

`When the even was come,

`... He made His grave with the

wicked (plural), and with the rich

there came a rich man of

(singular) in His death'.

Arimathaea, named Joseph ...

He went to Pilate, and begged

the body of Jesus ... And when

Joseph had taken the body, he

wrapped it in a clean linen

cloth, and laid it in his own

new tomb, which he had hewn

out in the rock ...'.

Now bear in mind that all these prophecies were written some 1,000 to 500 years before these events occurred

and that they all happened literally, not in any figurative way, exactly as had been stated by the Old Testament

writers, and they all were fulfilled in twenty-four hours. Furthermore Psalm twenty-two vividly describes death by

crucifixion. This form of punishment was used centuries later by the Romans. How, then, could the writer of the

Psalm have known about it? And how can the above fourteen prophecies be explained? Not by chance, for no sane

mind could believe that these statements were fourteen lucky guesses that literally came true in one day! The

conclusion is inevitable, that the Bible is what it claims to be, the Word of God. No wonder Peter says, `We have

also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed' (2 Pet. 1:19).

`These (things) have been recorded in order that you may believe that He is the Christ, the Son of God, and that,

through believing, you might have life through His Name' (John 20:31, Weymouth's translation).

Its indestructibility - It can be said with truth that no book has had to withstand such enmity, opposition and

vehement criticism as the Word of God. It has been the target of infidels, atheists and the enemies of Christianity

for nearly 2,000 years and yet it not only survives today, but is the world's best seller! There is no modern book that

is printed in such quantities as the Bible; millions of copies are distributed every year by the Bible Societies of the

world and somehow nothing can stop its circulation. It can be said with certainty that if an ordinary book had

received a fraction of the opposition the Bible has endured it would never have survived. Voltaire, the noted French

infidel, who died in 1778, stated that in one hundred years from his time, the Bible and Christianity would be swept

from existence. Little did he know that after his death the very house in which he lived would be used by the