In the history of the human race there have been many true prophets and true seers, but all of them are against Christ as servants against master, or disciples against teacher. Never since the beginning of the world has such a seer, clairvoyant, seer and prophet walked on the poor earth as the Messiah of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ. He clearly saw the drama of the world in the past from the beginning of time; he saw everything that was happening at the present time among people and in people, and he foresaw what would still happen before the end of the great world drama. Both in small and in great. And he possessed mental and nervous powers, superhuman powers, to see all this and calmly endure and discreetly reveal it to people.

Calling the fishermen to Him as His first disciples, He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men."

He said this in the early days, at the beginning of His Messianic ministry in the world. And this eventually came true completely. His apostles became fishers of men, catching them in the net of the truth of the kingdom of heaven, just as they had once fished in their fishermen's nets on the lake.

Nathanael, when he first met Jesus, was greatly frightened by His words: "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you; was so greatly frightened by the sagacity of Him Whom he had just denied before Philip, that he exclaimed: Rabbi! You are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel.

Jesus sees a man's thoughts, knows what a man thinks in his heart. When He performed one of the miracles, some of the scribes said to themselves, "He blasphemes." And Jesus, seeing their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil in your hearts?

And again, on another occasion, when the Jewish Pharisees thought of Him that He cast out demons with the help of a demon, Jesus, knowing their thoughts, began to answer their thoughts with words (Matt. 12:25).

The Evangelist John wrote down the following testimony about Jesus: "He had no need for anyone to bear witness to man, for He Himself knew what was in man" (John 2:25).

God knoweth your hearts (Luke 16:15), that is, He, Jesus, knew their hearts, and their thoughts, and their vain desires, and their intention to kill Him.

He foretells His suffering, death, and resurrection almost at the beginning of His ministry. In a secret conversation with Nicodemus, He speaks of His sufferings on the Cross as follows: "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up (to the Cross), that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:14-15).

He foretold His three-day stay in the tomb and His resurrection when the scribes and Pharisees demanded some sign from Him. Then He answered these hypocrites with these prophetic words: "A wicked and adulterous generation seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given him, except the sign of Jonah the prophet; for as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights (Matt. 12:39-40).

And on another occasion, when these accursed eyewitnesses of Christ's innumerable miracles demanded some special sign, He again repeats to them the parable of Jonah as an image of His three-day death and resurrection (cf. Matt. 16:1-4).

He told His disciples many times that He would suffer from the elders and priestly leaders, that they would kill Him, and that He would rise again on the third day. All this is said by Him many times.

And it came to pass, as they passed through Galilee, that Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him, and on the third day he shall rise again. And they were very sad.

And again on another occasion He said to them, that the Jews would deliver Him up to the Gentiles, and mock Him, and insult Him, and spit on Him, and beat Him, and kill Him: and on the third day He will rise again. But the Apostles understood none of this (Luke 18:32-33, 34).