Messias
Jesus é o Messias prometido — o Cristo, o Ungido de Deus. Séculos de profecias apontaram para Ele, e Pedro declarou: 'Tu és o Cristo, o Filho do Deus vivo.'
A confissão messiânica
Pedro confessou: Tu és o Cristo, o Filho do Deus vivo. Os apóstolos pregaram incansavelmente que Jesus é o Messias prometido.
15 "And who do you say that I am?" he asked them.16 So Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
42 but not for a single day did they desist from teaching and preaching in the Temple, and in private houses, the Gospel of Jesus, the Messiah.
22 "But having obtained the help that comes from God, I stand even to this day witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said should come;23 "how that the Christ must suffer, and how he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should bring a message of light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."
As profecias cumpridas
O Messias viria como Príncipe da Paz, Salvador e Senhor. Cada profecia se cumpriu em Jesus de Nazaré, nascido em Belém.
11 "For unto you born this day in there is born in Davids town a Saviour, who is the Anointed Lord.
6 Blessed and holy is he who has a part in the first resurrection; on such the second death has no power, but they will be Gods priests, and Christs; and will reign with him for a thousand years.
44 "Therefore you also must be ready, for in an hour when you do not expect him, the Son of man is coming.