The story goes that Jesus fulfilled countless prophecies in the Hebrew Bible, yet Jews didn’t believe him and eventually had him killed for blasphemy. But take a closer look and you’ll see it’s not prophecy being fulfilled — it’s prophecy being constructed to make Jesus fit. The so-called prophecies were never expected by Jews to be fulfilled by anyone, and they still aren’t. And Luke — the guy who gave us shepherds, angels, and a baby in a manger — was one of the worst offenders.
