How many Old Testament prophecies are there about Jesus?

Christians believe that there are 16 main prophecies in the old testament that are about Jesus and were fulfilled by his coming.

These are as follows:

Isaiah 9:6

For a child has been born for us,
A son given to us;
Authority rest upon his shoulders,
And he is named,
Wonderful counsellor, might god
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 11:12

He will raise a signal for the Nations,
And will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
And gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 53:5

But he was wounded for out transgressions,
Crushed for our iniquities;
Upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
And by this bruises we are healed.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem;
Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he,
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Zechariah 12:10

And they will pout out a spirit OS compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that, when they look on the on whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Micah 5:2

But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah,
Who are one of the little clans of Judah,
From you shall come forth me
One who is to rule Israel,
whose origin is from of old,
from ancient days.

Haggai 2:6-9

For this says the Lord of hosts: Once again, in a little whiles, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land; and I will shake all the nations, so that the treasure of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with splendour, says the Lord of hoists. The silver is mind, and the dolls is mine, says the Lord of hosts. The latter splendour of the house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts; and in this place I will give prosperity, says the Lord of hosts.

Ezekiel 37:26-27

I will make a convenient of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with the' and I will bless them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forevermore. My dwelling place shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Deuteronomy 18:15

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet.

Daniel 9:24-27

"Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your hold city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both cession and preheat, and to anoint a most holy place. Know therefore and understand: from the time that the word went out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the time of an anointed prince, there shall be seven weeks; and for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with streets and moat, but in a trouble time. After the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing, and the troops of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed. He shall make a stone covariant with many for one week, and for had of the week he shall make sacrifice and offering cease; and in their place shall be an abomination that desolates, until the decreed end is poured our upon the desolator.

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child, I loved him,
And out of Egypt I called my son.

Isaiah 8:23-9:1 (9:1-2)

But there will be no gloom for those who were in anguish. In the former time he bought into contempt the land of Zebulum and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he will make glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who lived in a land of deep darkness -
on them light has shined.

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the wound woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord:
A voice is heard in Ramah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
because they are no more.

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. Then he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rob such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by humanoid beings.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:12-20

I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom leads them;
But I did not know that she was their mother,
I learned without fuel and I impart without grudging;
I do not hide her wealth,
for it is an unfailing treasure for mortals;
Those who get it obtain friendship with God,
commended for the gifts that come from instructions.
May God grant me to speak with judgement, and to have thoughts worthy of what I have received;
for he is the guide ever of wisdom
and the corrector of the wise.
For this we and our word are in his hand,
as are all understanding and skill in crafts.
For it is he who gave me unerring knowledge of what exists,
to know the structure of the worlds and the activity of the elements;
the beginning and end and middle of times,
the alternations of the solstices and the changes of the sedans,
the cycles of the year and the constellations of the stars,
the natures of animals and the tepees of wild animals,
the powers of spirits and the thoughts of human beings,
the varieties of plants and the virtues of roots.



There are also parts in the New Testament that refer back to the Old Testament, to show the passages have been fulfilled. For example:

John 19:36-37

These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled, "None of his bones shall be broken." And again another passage of scripture says "They will look on the one whom they have pierced."

However, other religions, such as Judaism, view these passages in a different way and do not believe that they are related to Jesus at all.

Another Opinion:

I have carefully read the entire Bible. If there ever was a prophecy of the coming of Jesus, it is never mentioned in the Old Testament. Nevertheless, Burton L. Mack describes a trick that can be used to make any Old Testament book say what you want it to say. By this means, books such as Genesis and Isaiah have been made to refer to Jesus, even though that does not appear to have been the intention of the authors. Mack says in Who Wrote the New Testament that at first the study of a text may not seem to support a traditional Christian conviction, or the answer one hopes to find in the Bible. But with a little ingenuity, one can set up the comparison again with other emphases and make the answer come out right. This trick seems to come naturally when studying the Bible, and Mack sees it happen all the time in the classrooms of the School of Theology at Claremont.

So, while there are not really any prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament, others can find literally thousands of prophecies.