“That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,”
So that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled. The fulfillment formula applied to Jesus' choice of Galilee as his ministry base. Isaiah 9:1–2 is the text being fulfilled — one of the great messianic texts of the Hebrew prophets, promising light to the regions most associated with Gentile influence and spiritual darkness. Matthew's consistent use of the fulfillment formula communicates that the events of Jesus' life are not accidents or coincidences but the unfolding of a plan that Isaiah and the other prophets were announcing in advance. The text and the event interpret each other: the event shows what the prophecy was pointing toward, and the prophecy shows what the event means.
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