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The Good News is the fulfillment of prophecy through Jesus Christ

This prophecy was written by Isaiah in the 8th century B.C.:

Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.

He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

And they made His grave with the wicked – But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,

Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah 53)

There is one who perfectly fulfilled this prophecy 700 years later: God’s Suffering Servant, Jesus Christ. His life and death are recorded in the Injil and corroborated in secular sources such as Tacitus, Josephus, and Lucian of Samosata.

A black eye to the secular worldview which denies the possibility of God, a scroll containing this prophecy was discovered in Qumran, near the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea, and dated to 125 B.C., more than a hundred years before its fulfillment.

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Jesus Christ confirmed in Quran

1300 years after Isaiah’s prophecy was given and 600 years after its fulfillment in Jesus Christ, the Prophet Mohammed received the Quran in the Arabian Peninsula. Unable to read or write, the humble Prophet could not have authored the Book himself, which confirms the Torah and Injil as Truth sent by God:

Indeed, We revealed the Torah, containing guidance and light, by which the prophets, who submitted themselves to Allah, made judgments for Jews. So too did the rabbis and scholars judge according to Allah’s Book, with which they were entrusted and of which they were made keepers. (Quran 5:46)

Then in the footsteps of the prophets, We sent Jesus, son of Mary, confirming the Torah revealed before him. And We gave him the Gospel containing guidance and light and confirming what was revealed in the Torah—a guide and a lesson to the God-fearing. (Quran 5:48)

The Quran exhorts the People of the Book to live by the Torah and Injil:

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “O People of the Book! You have nothing to stand on unless you observe the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been revealed to you from your Lord.” (Quran 5:68)

Indeed, the believers, Jews, Sabians1 and Christians – whoever ˹truly˺ believes in Allah and the Last Day and does good, there will be no fear for them, nor will they grieve. (Quran 5:69)

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Jesus Christ fulfills Torah

After confirming the Torah, the Quran warns the People of the Book against twisting and corrupting its words:  

Indeed, We revealed the Torah, containing guidance and light, by which the prophets, who submitted themselves to Allah, made judgments for Jews. So too did the rabbis and scholars judge according to Allah’s Book, with which they were entrusted and of which they were made keepers. So do not fear the people; fear Me! Nor trade my revelations for a fleeting gain. And those who do not judge by what Allah has revealed are ˹truly˺ the disbelievers. (Quran 5:46)

The Prophet Muhammad had an encounter with such people, and saw through their chicanery and judged death as required under Torah:

The Prophet was brought a Jewish man and a Jewish woman who had committed adultery. He said, “What do you find in your Book?” They said, “We expose them and flog them.” Then Abdullah ibn Salam said, “You are lying; it contains the ruling of stoning. Bring the Torah and recite it.” They brought it, and one of them placed his hand over the verse of stoning and read what was before it and after it. Abdullah ibn Salam said to him, “Lift your hand.” When he lifted it, the verse of stoning was there. They said, “He has spoken the truth, O Muhammad; it contains the verse of stoning.” So the Prophet ordered that they be stoned. (Sahih al-Bukhari)

But in fulfilling Torah, Jesus Christ speaks life and forgiveness instead of death and judgment:

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.

So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.  Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”

She said, “No one, Lord.”

And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.” (John 8:1-11)