See especially Isaiah 6. I scoured the Old Testament looking for a passage (s) saying that the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem--and I cannot find it. Scripture appears in the mouth of Jesus four times: 6:35; 10:34; 13:18; 15:25. Copyright 2021 Bible Central, a project of Book of Mormon Central. It's NOT what many think Watch on Overview of Genesis Watch on Signing up for both the Daily and Weekly email lists is not recommended, as you will receive duplicate emails. However, Christian apologists have an explanation. And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers. By citing the prophets of old, Jesus, the God of heaven and earth, was placing a stamp of approval on and lending authority to their writings.. Luke describes Jesus on the road. . Each of these quotations is introduced with a formula such as it is written or the Scripture says, except for the final pair of quotations, near the end of ch. Yeshua applied it to himself: although rejected by the Jewish leadership of his day, he will nevertheless occupy the key position in the redemption of the world: Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lords doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes? (Matthew 21:42). 1. Yeshua quoted from Psalm 82, a psalm speaking of gods, making reference to the kings of the world who thought of themselves as deities or to those in Israel such as judges. You shall not murder. Not that Jesus quoted the passage word for word. Jesus EXALTED the Word Jesus exalted the Old Testament Scriptures by continually appealing to them as the preeminent manual for life on earth. Yeshuas life and death were infused with the Hebrew Scriptures. 13:1415; Mark 4:12; Luke 8:10; John 12:40. Jesus is the Messiah foretold in the Old Testamentthe One who came and was and is to come. Yeshua loved his people and traditions, but took issue with certain traditions that may originally have been well-intentioned, but ended up violating the very Torah they were meant to uphold: You hypocrites! Luke 4:18, 19 Isaiah 61:1, 2 HOMETOWN SERMON 4. Many New Testament writers quoted Old Testament words and set them in a new context, as did both Jews and later Christians who wrote commentaries to interpret Old Testament passages. (Praise in place of Psalm 8s strength is from the Greek translation of the Old Testament, which is in wide use among Greek-speaking Jews.). Perhaps in the original Psalm, it referred to the reversal of positions: the nation that once was enslaved became a key to the worlds redemption. 1. In Mark 10:6-8, Jesus quotes from Genesis 1:27 and 2:24 in a straightforward, historical manner. Throughout my years reading the Bible I always wondered if Jesus quoted any Old Testament scripture more frequently than others? Yeshua told a parable that indicted the leadership of the day and warned that they will be replaced by leaders who are true to their calling. DESPERATION. He responded to each temptation by quoting from the Torah, showing the supreme value he placed on it for life, thought, and behavior. All of the scriptural quotations in this part of the Gospel clarify that the Suffering and Death of the Messiah should not have been unexpected for those who knew how to read Scripture properly. This portion of the Gospel contains five quotations. Others said, This is the Messiah. But some asked, Surely the Messiah does not come from Galilee, does he? Ac 2:34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, Ac 3:22-23 Moses said, The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. In the gospel of John, Yeshua used the rabbinic qal va-homer argument, from the lesser to the greater. Ac 7:40 saying to Aaron, Make for us gods who will go before us. August 9, 2021. Why do you wrong each other?. The chapter is really about the identity of Yeshua (he claimed to be the light of the world), and he used Deuteronomy to highlight that his claim is true. So, the prophets reminded Israel of the Torah and called them to repentance. He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. Ac 7:18 until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph. In Matthew 21:1516, Yeshua was being acclaimed by the crowds as the Son of David. Even the children were crying out, Hosanna to the Son of David! The acclamation was seen as a threat to the status quo of the Temple and its relationship to Rome. Lu 1:79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. So the Pharisees said to him, You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true. . Ac 7:14-15 And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all. The Old Testament includes numerous prophecies about the Messiah. A few of the Old Testament quotations in John are shared with the . Though the New Testament writer Luke was a Gentile, surprisingly his Gospel account reveals a significant knowledge of the Old Testament scriptures. Sometimes He is referencing or paraphrasing the concept (similar words) that is found in our Old Testament. Commentaries on the gospels. A few of the Old Testament quotations in John are shared with the Synoptic Gospels. This was taken directly from Exodus 3:6 when God told Moses who He is: And he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. This constitutes clear evidence of the unity between the Testaments, and the need for even Gentiles to learn Old Testament history as the preparatory phase for the coming of Christ. This question centers on the phrases "thus it is written" and "according t. Lu 10:27 And he answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself., Lu 10:28 And he said to him, You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live., Lu 11:30 For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. Answer (1 of 7): There really is no place that it is "written" From the Apologetics Press "The question presented is this: Did Jesus err when He alluded to certain prophecies concerning His resurrection on the third day? The point of parables, while often unstated, is understood by the disciples of a rabbi. Luke 4:8 & Deuteronomy 10:20 Luke 4:8 8 Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! But knowing that Jesus was both God and man, Luke proceeds to show how he is linked back to Adam, the first son of God. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, Ac 7:3 and said to him, Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.. In his humiliation justice was denied him. Jesus Begins His Ministry. 1. Without quoting a specific verse, Jesus explains the significance of his own Death by citing the story of the bronze snake in Numbers 21:9 (John 3:1415). These quotations demonstrate in which sense the Old Testament is about Jesus (cf. Jesus loved to quote the words of Old Testament prophets. (Deuteronomy 17:6, Deuteronomy 19:15). Matthew 5:17. For example, he called to mind Exodus 21:2325 But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. To that, Yeshua said: You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living. Lu 20:28 and they asked him a question, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a mans brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. All content appearing on this site is owned and maintained by the Fortify Your Faith Foundation, a tax-exempt, not-for-profit, religious corporation as defined under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (Jeremiah 7:11). Yeshua cried out a lament over Jerusalem in the tradition of the prophets and books such as Lamentation. Luke records that when Jesus began his ministry, he went to the synagogue in Nazareth on the Sabbath day. In Luke's Gospel, you find the Psalms absolutely everywhere. Ac 7:44 Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. As the Book of Signs draws to a close, the narrator explains why Jesus ministry has apparently failed to attract the great following the might be expected of the Messiah: the rejection of Jesus by his own people (1:1011) fulfills Scripture. Jesus was talking about his Resurrection, but also about his Suffering and Crucifixion. Yet, Yeshua exhorted those who listened to his teachings about deeper obedience. Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you (Matthew 5:3842). ' " (Jesus quoted Deut. to the first century C.E. (Daniel 9:27), Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. cf. Yeshua (Jesus) demonstrated intimate familiarity with the Tanakh when he spoke, taught, and servedoften drawing surprising insights from the Scriptures. So it was until the days of David. Then Jesus said to him, "Go, Satan! Finally, when Satan told Yeshua to worship him, Yeshua quoted Deuteronomy 6:13, Be gone, Satan! Yeshua continued to quote from the psalms that speak of the groundless hatred shown to a righteous person, applying the verses to himself to demonstrate the way that those who challenged him reacted to him: But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: They hated me without a cause. (John 15:25), Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause. Yeshua appears to use the rabbinic qal va-homer (how much more) argument: if the testimony of two people is true, how much more so is the testimony of Yeshua and his heavenly Father. In my traditional Jewish upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, our family comfortably referred to the Old Testament, although many other Jewish people prefer to call it the Hebrew Bible or the Tanakh. (Daniel 11:31; cf. It's our hope that your faith is strengthened as you pursue these prophecies about Jesus. Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!, Lu 13:35 Behold, your house is forsaken. Ac 7:35 This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge?this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. Everytime I read the New Testament I see Jesus quoting the Old Testament quite a bit. Ac 13:18 And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. For they do not wash their hands when they eat. He answered them, And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? Matthew 5:21 Matthew 5:27 Exodus 20:13 Exodus 20:14 SERMON ON THE MOUNT 3. John 6:35-59 - Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The careful student soon learns that such is not the case. 42 Has not the scripture said that the Messiah is descended from David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?. Jesus Rejected at Nazareth. In the process, Yeshua quoted from Psalm 118:2223, this time from one of the Hallel Psalms, recited at Passover and other occasions. Lu 2:21-22 And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. Lu 20:42-43 For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool., Lu 22:37 For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me: And he was numbered with the transgressors. For what is written about me has its fulfillment., Lu 23:29 For behold, the days are coming when they will say, Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!, Lu 23:30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us.. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David. Luke 4:14-30 English Standard Version Jesus Begins His Ministry 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. For instance, when Jesus cleanses the temple during the Gospels first Passover (2:1325), the narrator explains that the disciples recalled the passage from Psalm 69:9, Zeal for your house will consume me. At the time, the disciples did not realize that the words of this psalm applied to Jesus; it is, after all, a psalm about suffering, and they did not anticipate that the Messiah would suffer. Either way, the psalm says that those who fail to do justice will die like all human beings. This pattern is repeated when Yeshua quoted commandments concerning adultery (Exodus 20:14, Deuteronomy 5:18, Matthew 5:27), divorce (Matthew 5:31, Deuteronomy 24:1), and swearing falsely (Matthew 5:33, Numbers 30:2, Deuteronomy 23:21). Sometimes, the New Testament follows the Hebrew text, in other cases, it more closely follows the translation into Greek of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. Ac 7:36 This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years. He gives us a longer "travel narrative" than the other gospels. Does this statement have anything to do with the story in Genesis 28:1022? If the term gods could be applied to those who failed to administer justice, then Jesus can certainly be the Son of God, as a perfectly just and righteous person: Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your Law, I said, you are gods? If he called them gods to whom the word of God cameand Scripture cannot be brokendo you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, You are blaspheming, because I said, I am the Son of God? Few will dispute that there are at least six direct Messianic predictions in the Pentateuch: Genesis 3:15; 9:27; 12:2-3; 49:8-12; Numbers 24:15-19; and Deuteronomy 18:15-18. Jesus replied that he must keep the commandments: You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The young man said to him, All these I have kept. Ac 7:33-34 Then the Lord said to him, Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. Prophecies of Jesus' birth . The citation from the book of Daniel is to warn Yeshuas hearers and the later readers of the book of Matthew to flee the devastation: So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. God speaks through the Old Testament, and he speaks about Jesus. Lu 11:51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. You shall not steal. Many of them heard the words of Jesus but did not grasp their import, which was designed to lead them to repentance: You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive. For this peoples heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them. (Matthew 13:1415, Mark 4:1113, Luke 8:10). Are the Gospels a Part of the New Testament? at the end of His earthly life. Yeshua echoed Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18. . (Isaiah 29:13). Luke 24:27 says that "beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, [Jesus] interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself," and later in verse 44, "'These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled. What does Jesus' response mean? Lu 24:46 and said to them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, Ac 1:20 For it is written in the Book of Psalms, May his camp become desolate, and let there be no one to dwell in it; and Let another take his office., Ac 2:25-28 For David says concerning him, I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken; therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope. See, your house is left to you desolate. Lu 20:37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. When Yeshua entered the Temple, he took great displeasure with the way the moneychangers were operating. Yeshua quoted from the prophet Malachi to indicate that John was a messenger who prepared the way for the Lord. But that doesn't mean that Christians have to keep circumcision and all the other old laws. Ac 7:6-7 And God spoke to this effectthat his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years. Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing. . Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007. These quotations are mostly introduced with a fulfillment formula: that the Scripture might be fulfilled, or similar. In effect, Jesus was saying that He and the prophets agreed on this or that doctrine or teaching. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. Lu 23:46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, Father, into your hands I commit my spirit! And having said this he breathed his last. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Yeshua was not against traditions. Lu 7:27 This is he of whom it is written,Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you., Lu 8:10 he said, To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. He provides the account of Marys anthem of praise in which she cites from portions of about 23 Old Testament passages (1:46-55). Jesus called upon God's Word to respond to the Pharisees ( Matt 22:41-46 et.al.) Old Testament Passages Cited by Jesus Christ Throughout my years reading the Bible I always wondered if Jesu. Even the psalmists close friend who ate meals with him has turned against him, or as the psalm says, lifted his heel (v 9). (Joseph Klausner, Jesus of Nazareth [New York, Macmillan, 1926] p. A list of Old Testament quotes in the New Testament. Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, and not sacrifice. For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.. The same is true of Zacharias, father of John the Baptist (1:68-79). They have been organized by the three divisions of the Old Testament: Torah (Five Books of Moses), Prophets (or Neviim), and Writings (or Ketuvim). The historian was familiar with the ancient accounts pertaining to the widow of Zarephath (4:25-26; cf. The theme of fulfillment of Scripture continues through the Book of Glory, and each instance is tied to the Messiahs (unexpected, but not un-predicted) suffering and rejection. The Hebrew scriptures were an important source for the New Testament authors. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator. Jesuss usage of scripture in sermons and during teaching situations serves as an example of how modern-day teachers should teach the gospelby using the scriptures when appropriate. 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