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23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter and understand the vision.

24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

25 “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem to the Anointed One,[a] the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:25 “Anointed One” can also be translated “Messiah” (same as “Christ”).