Yoseph and Yeshua Comparison

Parallel	Joseph	Yeshua
BELOVED OF HIS FATHER	Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children (Gen. 37:3a).	This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matt. 3:17b).
ENVIED AND HATED WITHOUT A CAUSE	And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more they…hated him… (Gen 37:4).	…the chief priests had delivered him for envy (Mark 15:10). They hated me without a cause (John 15:25b).
A ROOT OUT OF DRY GROUND	…he was the son of his [Jacob's] old age (Gen. 37:3b).	…he [Messiah] shall grow up before him…like a root out of a dry ground (Isa. 53:2a).
HE FORETOLD THAT ONE DAY HE WOULD RULE	… your sheaves stood…and made obeisance to my sheaf (Gen. 37:7).	…ye [shall] seethe Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven (Matt. 26:64b).
ACCUSED OF BEING A DREAMER (beside himself, deluded)	And they said to one another, Behold, this dreamer cometh (Gen. 37:19).	…they said, He is beside himself (Mark 3:21b).
SENT BY THE FATHER TO SEEK THE BROTHERS' WELFARE	Go…see whether it be well with thy brethren (Gen. 37:14a).	I will send my beloved son… (Luke 20:13b).
WENT WILLINGLY AND SOUGHT TILL HE FOUND THEM	And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them… (Gen. 37:17b).	…Lo, I come, to do thy will, O God (Heb. 10:9b). He came unto his own… (John 1:11a).
REJECTED AND CONDEMNED TO DIE	they conspired against him to slay him (Gen. 37:18b).	We will not have this man to reign over us (Luke 19:14b). But they cried, saying, Crucify him! Crucify him! (Luke 23:21).
STRIPPED OF HIS CLOTHING	…they stripped Joseph out of his coat…that was on him (Gen 37:23b).	And they stripped him (Matt. 27:28a).
THROWN INTO A PIT (alone, forsaken)	And they took him, and cast him into a pit (Gen. 37:24a).	so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (Matt. 12:40b).
SOLD FOR SILVER INTO THE HANDS OF GENTILES	…they sold Joseph to the lshmaelites twenty pieces of silver; and they brought Joseph into Egypt (Gen. 37:28b).	and they bargained with him [Judas] for thirty pieces of silver (Matt. 26:15b).
RAISED FROM THE PIT	…and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit (Gen. 37:28a).	…he rose again the third day according to the scriptures (1 Cor. 15:4b).
BECAME A SERVANT	And Joseph was brought down to Egypt…and he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian (Gen. 39:1-2).	I am among you as he that serveth (Luke 22:27b). …took upon him the form of a servant (Phil. 2:7b).
EVERYTHING HE DID PROSPERED	And…the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand (Gen. 39:3b).	and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand (Isaiah 53:10b).
RESISTED TEMPTATION	The temptation by Potiphar's wife (Read Gen. 39:7-12).	For such an high priest was fitting…who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners…(Heb. 7:26). …[he) was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin (Heb. 4:15b).
FALSELY ACCUSED	The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me (Gen. 39:17-18).	At the last came two false witnesses, And said… (Matt. 26:60b, 61a).
NUMBERED WITH TRANSGRESSORS	And Joseph's master…put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound (Gen. 39:20a).	…there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left (Luke 23:33).
PROMISED DELIVERANCE TO A CONDEMNED MAN	Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee… (Gen. 40:13).	Today shalt thou be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43b).
FORETOLD THE FUTURE ACCURATELY	And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us (Gen. 41:13a).	Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he (John 13:19).
PROVED TO BE A GREAT COUNSELLOR	…Forasmuch as God hath shown thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art (Gen. 41:39).	and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor… (Isa. 9:6b).
PROMOTED TO HONOR AND GLORY AND GIVEN A NEW NAME	And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See I have set thee over all the land of Egypt (Gen. 41:41). (See also Gen. 41:45a.)	…God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a new name which is above every name (Phil. 2:9).
ALL PEOPLE COMMANDED TO BOW TO HIM	and they cried before him, Bow the knee (Gen. 41:43b).	That at the name of Yeshua every knee should bow (Phil. 2:10a).
PROVIDED FOR ALL IN NEED	And all the countries came…to Joseph to buy grain (Gen. 41:57a).	…I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me shall never hunger (John 6:35a).
HIS PEOPLE DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM	And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him (Gen. 42:8).	…Have I been such a long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me…? (John 14:9a). But their minds were blinded (2 Cor. 3:14a).
HIS BROTHERS WERE TROUBLED WHEN THEY MET HIM	…be not grieved nor angry with yourselves (Gen. 45:5a).v	They shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn…and shall be in bitterness… (Zech. 12:10b).
ALLOWED HIS BROTHERS TO SUFFER A PERIOD OF TRIBULATION	Read Gen. 42:6 through 44:34.	it is even the time of Jacob's trouble (Jer. 30:7b). For then shall be great tribulation (Matt. 24:21a).
REVELATION AND RECONCILIATION	I am Joseph…whom ye sold…God hath made me lord of all…come…unto me… (Gen. 45:3b-9).	And so all Israel shall be saved;…as it is written…and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob (Rom. 11:26).