The Fulfillment of Prophecy

When Jesus said, “I thirst,” He was fulfilling ancient Scripture. John tells us that Jesus, “knowing that all was now finished, and to fulfill the Scripture, He said, ‘I thirst.'” This wasn’t a random cry—it was the completion of Psalm 69: “In my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.”
Over three hundred prophecies in the Old Testament point to the Messiah, and Jesus fulfilled every one. Consider just eight major prophecies—the mathematical probability of one person fulfilling even those eight is one in one hundred quadrillion. Imagine covering the entire state of Texas two feet deep in silver dollars, marking one coin, mixing them all up, blindfolding someone, and having them find that one marked coin on their first try. That’s the probability.
Jesus didn’t arrange this humanly. The soldiers offering Him sour wine on a hyssop branch—they were just doing what soldiers did. Yet, even that detail fulfilled prophecy. The hyssop recalls the first Passover when blood was applied to doorposts so death would pass over. At the very moment Jesus hung on the cross, lambs were being slaughtered in the temple for Passover. Jesus is our Passover Lamb.