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If you consider this a subject likely to reward time spent researching it in the first place, you might also consider working out what the criterion is to declare something in the Old Testament a prediction, then going back to the Old Testament and counting how many predictions there are. Satisfying 20 predictions out of 25 is presumably more significant than satisfying 20 predictions out of 2000, but a list of 20 satisfied predictions won't tell you which condition you're in.
A fair point! Some of those "predictions" only look like predictions in retrospect, i.e. the ones in Psalms. Others are blatantly prophetic, and I think constitute a falsifiable test IF the text was written before Jesus' time and IF it appears to be a true historical fact and not fabricated by the New-Testament author. (The second one is the big "if" in the equation.)
I also wonder how trustworthy the New Testament is on these points, given that the writers probably knew about all of these predictions. Some of them are obviously a matter of historical record, but others seem like they might have been easy for the writers to just put in there for the sake of lining up with Old Testament predictions (30 pieces of silver, 'suffered vicariously,' thirsting on the cross and given vinegar...).
EDIT: OP mentioned this possibility. I should learn to read.