Isaiah foretells the birth in three passages above all. “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son” (Isaiah 7:14); “unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given” (Isaiah 9:6); and a shoot shall grow from the stump of Jesse, David’s father (Isaiah 11:1). Matthew quotes the first when he tells of the birth. Isaiah spoke all three in dark years. Ahaz, the king of David’s line in Jerusalem, trembled as two armies marched on the…

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