When Jesus had received the vinegar he said, “It is complete,”that is,
fulfilled.(John 19 : 30 )
These things happened to fulfill the Scripturethat “You will not break a
bone in him”; and furthermore another line in Scripture says,“They
will see the One whom they pierced.” (John 19 : 36 , 37 )
Before the Lord left, he taught his disciples that the whole Word was
written about him and that he had come into the world to fulfill it, as the
following words indicate:
He said to them, “You are foolish and slow at heart to believe all the
things that were spoken by the prophets. Was it not fitting for Christ to
suffer and enter into glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the
Prophets,he interpreted [points] regarding himself in all the Scriptures.
(Luke 24 : 25 , 26 , 27 )
Further, Jesus said,
It was right for all the things written about me in the Law of Moses and
the Prophets and Psalms to be fulfilled.(Luke 24 : 44 , 45 )
The following words of the Lord make it clear that in the world he
fulfilled everything in the Word down to the least detail:
Truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one little letter or
the tip of one letter will pass from the law until all of it is fulfilled.
(Matthew 5 : 18 )
From the statements just made you can now clearly see that the Lord’s
fulfilling everything in the law does not mean that he fulfilled everything
in the Ten Commandments; it means that he fulfilled everything in the
whole Word. You can see that “the law” means everything in the Word
from the following passages: “Jesus said, ‘Is it not written in your law,“I
said, ‘You are gods’”?’” (John 10 : 34 ; the passage quoted is written in
Psalms 82 : 6 ). “The crowd replied, ‘We have heard from the law,“Christ
remains forever”’” (John 12 : 34 ; the passage quoted is written in Psalms
89 : 34 – 37 ; 110 : 4 ; and Daniel 7 : 14 ). “To fulfill the Word that is written in
their law,‘They hated me for no reason’” (John 15 : 25 ; the passage quoted
is written in Psalms 35 : 19 ). “It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away
than for the tip of one letter of the law to fall” (Luke 16 : 17 ). The “law” in
these passages means the whole of Sacred Scripture, as it does a number
of times elsewhere.