31): _Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah._ And Baruch (Bar. iii. 35-37): _This is our God_, &c. _Afterward did he show himself upon earth, and conversed with men._ Ezekiel (Ezek. xxxiv. 23-25): _I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them; even my servant David. And I will make with them a covenant of peace_, &c. Daniel (Dan. vii. 13-14): _I saw in the night visions; and behold one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the ancient of days; and they brought him near before him; and there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion_, &c. Haggai (Haggai ii. 6-7): _Yet once it is a little while, and I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations; and the desire of all nations shall come._ Zachariah, under the type of Joshua the high-priest (Zach. iii. 8): _I will bring forth my servant the branch_, &c. And again (Zach. vi. 12): _Behold the man whose name is the Branch._ And again (Zach. ix. 9): _Rejoice greatly O daughter of Zion, shout O daughter of Jerusalem; behold thy king cometh to thee; he is just, having salvation._ The Jews moved by these and other prophecies, expected Christ their king to be sent from God; who should redeem them, and furthermore bear rule over all nations. Yea, this prophecy had spread over the whole Roman empire; which Vespasian too, though falsely, interpreted in favour of his own enterprises; _that out of Judea should come he that should have dominion_. [Sidenote: The prophecies of Christ’s humility and passion.] 2. Now the prophecies of _Christ’s humility and passion_, amongst others are these: (Isaiah liii. 4): _He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted_; and by and by (verse 7): _He was oppressed, he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearer is dumb, so opened he not his mouth_, &c. And again (verse 8): _He was cut out of the land of the living; for the transgression of my people was he stricken_, &c. (Verse 12): _Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the transgressors, and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors._ And that of Zachariah (Zach. ix. 9): _He is lowly, riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass._ [Sidenote: That Jesus was the Christ.]