There are more than twenty four thousand manuscript copies of portions of the New Testament in existence today. That’s more than any other document of antiquity in history. The only book that even comes close to approaching such numbers is the “Iliad” by Homer with only 643 manuscripts in existence. (McDowell 39) “The Bible compared with other ancient writings, has more manuscript evidence than any ten pieces of classical literature combined.” says Josh McDowell in his book “

Now we will look at the manner of death in which he was to suffer. Here is the prophecy. “They pierced my hands and my feet” Psalm 22:16.

“The Bible towers in content above all earlier religious literature; and it towers just as impressively over all subsequent literature in the direct simplicity of its message and the catholicity of its appeal to men of all lands and times” (The Christian Century, November, 1958)

Let us now look at the Prophetic nature of the Bible. Prophecy by definition means to predict a future event. An example of this would be the prophecy of king Cyrus (Isaiah 44:28;45:1) The Prophet Isaiah, writing at around 700 B.C., predicts Cyrus (by name) as the king who will say to Jerusalem that their city will be built and the foundation of the temple will be laid. At the time of this prophecy, Jerusalem was built and the temple was standing. More than one hundred years later both the city and the temple was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. After the Babylonians took over Jerusalem, it was conquered by the Persians in about 539 B.C. Not long after that, a Persian named Cyrus gave the decree to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem. This was around one hundred and sixty years after the prophecy was predicted! (Walvord and Zuck 1098) This means Isaiah predicted that a man named Cyrus, who wouldn’t even be

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