Bible Strands
Matthew 1:22
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Matthew addresses his readers in the narrative gap between the angel’s command to name the child Jesus and the quotation of the prophetic sign, positioning the conception as a recorded historical event.
The words — πληρωθῇ (plērōthēa) translates literally to “may be fulfilled,” and ῥηθὲν (rhēthen) means “having been spoken,” directly linking the event to prior divine utterance.
The thread — This fulfillment pattern appears in Luke 24:44, where Jesus states all Scripture must be fulfilled, 1 Kings 8:15, where God’s spoken promises are realized by His hand, and Matthew 2:23, which records another prophetic fulfillment in Nazareth.
Why it lands — The text demands the reader trace the correspondence between the announced birth and the cited prophetic word, treating the narrative as the direct execution of divine speech rather than autonomous human history.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Cross-references
- Luke 24:44 Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
- 1 Kings 8:15 and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
- Matthew 2:23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
- Acts 3:18 But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
- 1 Kings 8:24 You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.
- Ezra 1:1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
- Matthew 12:17 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
- Matthew 13:35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”
- John 17:12 While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
- John 18:9 This was to fulfill the word He had spoken: “I have not lost one of those You have given Me.”