These claims, however, do not greatly impress skeptics. Many Jewish people, for instance, believe that the prophets foresaw a different kind of Messiah. Since Jesus did not do this, they wonder how He could be the Messiah. Yet Christians believe that among the prophecies of a coming world leader are predictions with another view of Messiah. Christians believe that these prophecies present the Messiah as suffering, dying, and rising from death to provide salvation from sin's penalty before restoring Israel and ruling the earth from Jerusalem.
Skeptical people have many questions.
Many skeptics doubt that Jesus fulfilled even one prophecy. They argue that Christians either quote Old Testament passages out of context, mindlessly misinterpret them, or even dishonestly change them to fit their purposes. A common Jewish response to this verse is that the innocent sufferer here is not Jesus but the nation of Israel. Some skeptics accuse Christian translators of even mistranslating key verses in Isaiah to make them fit the New Testament portrayal of Jesus. But skeptics point out that nothing in the original context would lead a reader to see this psalm as a predictive prophecy.