The prophetism is an original religious phenomenon of the history of Israel.  It means the presence of exceptional men, the prophets which often speak, in the name of God, to cheer up the hebrew people and to reprimand him to be faithful to God.

   Strongly, in Jesus times, the hebrew people waits a prophet, or rather  the greatest Prophet.  The same Jesus is seen like a great prophet by the people of Israel.

   From beginning of his Mission, Jesus says to be among the prophets not honoured in their homeland(Luke 4,24) and, then, among those ones killed at Jerusalem.

   At Nain, after the resurrection of widow's son , all the people feared and glorified God saying: "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and "God has visited his people!"(Luke 7,16).

   But in his teaching and preaching Jesus is very diverse in comparison with the other prophets of the Ancient Testament. They always speak in third person, and so, in name of God. They say: "Oracle of the Lord".

   On the contrary, Jesus teachs with authority, in first person: "But I tell you".  And for this Authority, Jesus says: "Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to  abolish them but to fulfil them" (Mattew 5,17).

   In his words Jesus shows the authority to place himself in the same place of God, and he has a particular relationship with the Holy Spirit.  No prophet has said and shown to have a so intimate relationship with God. Only Jesus. He often declares to be the Envoied of God, but also to be an Epiphany,  an incarnation of God (Cfr. Settimio Cipriani, Gesù Profeta, in Storia di Gesù, Ed. Rizzoli, Vol 2, p. 471 ss.). 

   To autenticate the assertion for which Jesus is a Prophet, there are the Signs, the prodigies, the roaring miracles He has operated.  But, above all, there are his prophecies realized punctually during the centuries. Exactly the town benefitted by Him, those in which he has operated more miracles and has preached very much, they are predestinated to the distruction, because doesn't have granted his preaching.

   <<Woe to you Chorazin, woe to you Bethsaida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. And you Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.

   He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and who rejects me rejects him who sent me!>>(Luke 10,16).

   The prophecies have been exactly realized in human history, even if have passed some centuries  since when was pronounced by Jesus.  Of Chorazin and Bethsaida, the towns near Capernaum, there are only few  ruins.

   Capernaum was razed to the ground by an earthquake and, its memory was covered by the patina of the time. Nobody knew which was the real place of this town. 

   Only after to a long series of excavations executed during successive epoches, we have been able to identify the place where was Capernaum.

   On the contrary, about Tyre and Sidon we knows that they are Lebanese town. In the 1292, Tyre was destroyed by the muslims, after some vicissitudes.  But it was rebuilt and actually is called Sur. Sidon, instead, which Lebanese name is Sayda or Saida, it's a 100.000 inhabitants town. 

   Consequently Tyre and Sidon are living towns, while Capernaum, Chorazin and Bethsaida don't exist any more. 

   Although Jesus' prophecies would be pronounced in the first half of the first century, today they are realized completely. All this confirms that Jesus' prophetical words  are valid at the dawn of the third millennium of Christian Hera too.

   Another exactly realized important prophecy  was sayed by Jesus toward the Temple of Jerusalem: 

   "And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, He said, <<As for these things which you see, the days will come when there shall not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down>>" (Luke 21,5-7). 

   So Jesus preannounce the total distruction of what is admired like one of the seven wonders of the world.

   In fact, in the  70 after Christ, after Tito's siege to Jerusalem, the Temple is razed to the ground. The only ruins which remain of this holy building is that we knows like the western wall.

   Till some years ago the traditional scientist affirmed that going up to the 70 a.C., after the distruction of the Temple, the Gospels  wrote an event happened already.  Consequently the prophecy of the distruction of the temple lost importance and value. But the researches executed by scientists like Dreyfus, Carmignac, O'Callaghan, Thiede and recelntly by Marta Sordi besides to antedate the compiling of the Gospels, that is to evidence that they was written at least in the fifty years of the christian Hera, before the distruction of the Temple, they autenticate the prophecies and show  them valid, about the distruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, showing again their dramatic reality and historical Truth, really confirming that Jesus was a Prophet and was able to preannounce the future.