Re: The Early Christians: Creed, Confession and Scripture

Now, in the books of the prophets we find predicted that Jesus our Christ 
would come into the world born of a virgin and that, reaching manhood, he 
would heal every disease and ailment and raise the dead; that he would be 
hated, misunderstood, and crucified, would die, rise again, and ascend
into 
heaven; that he would be in fact and in name the son of God; that 
messengers would be sent by him to all peoples with this message; and that

people from the pagan nations would believe in him. This was prophesied 
partly five thousand years before he appeared, partly three thousand, 
partly two thousand, one thousand, and partly eight hundred years before
he 
appeared, for as one generation after another arose, new prophets arose 
time and again.

Justin, First Apology 31.