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11-2017
Old Testament Passages Quoted by Jesus Christ
Harold Willmington
Liberty University, hwillmington@liberty.edu
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OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGES QUOTED BY JESUS CHRIST
NEW TESTAMENT QUOTE OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGE HISTORICAL OCCASION
1. Matthew 4:4
Matthew 4:7
Matthew 4:10
Deuteronomy 8:3
Deuteronomy 6:16
Deuteronomy 6:13
TEMPTATION
2. Matthew 5:21
Matthew 5:27
Exodus 20:13
Exodus 20:14
SERMON ON THE MOUNT
3. Luke 4:18, 19 Isaiah 61:1, 2 HOMETOWN SERMON
4. Matthew 9:13
Mark 10:7, 8
Mark 12:29, 30
Matthew 15:7-9
John 8:17
Hosea 6:6
Genesis 2:24
Deuteronomy 6:4, 5
Isaiah 29:13
Deuteronomy 17:6
CONFRONTATIONS WITH
THE JEWISH RULERS
5. Luke 7:27 Malachi 3:1 TRIBUTE TO JOHN
6. Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
7. Luke 19:46 Isaiah 56:7 TEMPLE CLEANSING
8. Matthew 21:42, 44 Psalm 118:22, 23 PARABLE ABOUT ISRAEL
9. Mark 12:36 Psalm 110:1 TEMPLE QUESTION SESSION
10. John 15:25 Psalm 35:19; 69:4 LAST PASSOVER
11. Matthew 27:46
Luke 23:46
Psalm 22:1
Psalm 31:5
ON THE CROSS
The Events and Individuals He Referred To
The creation of Adam and Eve (Gen. 1:27; 2:24; Mk. 10:6-8)
The murder of Abel (Gen. 4:10; Lk. 11:51)
The corruption of Noah’s day and the flood (Gen. 6-7; Lk. 17:26-27)
The corruption of Lot’s day and the fire (Gen. 19; Lk. 17:28-29)
The worldliness of Lot’s wife (Gen. 19:26; Lk. 17:32)
The faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Mt. 22:32)
Moses and the burning bush (Ex. 3; Mk. 12:26)
Moses and the heavenly manna (Ex. 16:15; Jn. 6:31)
Moses and the brazen serpent (Num. 21:18; Jn. 3:14)
David and some shewbread (1 Sam. 21:6; Mt. 12:3-4)
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (1 Kings 10:1; Mt. 12:42)
Elijah, a widow, and the famine (1 Kings 17:1, 9; Lk. 4:25-26)
Naaman and his leprosy (2 Kings 5; Lk. 4:27)
The murder of Zechariah (2 Chron. 24:20-21; Lk. 11:51)
Daniel and the abomination of desolation (Dan. 9:27; 11:31; 12:11; Mt. 24:15)
Jonah and the fish (Jon. 1:17; Mt. 12:40; 16:4)
Jonah and the repentance of the Ninevites (Jon. 3:4-10; Lk. 11:30; Mt. 12:41)
The Passages He Quoted From
During His temptations
1. The first temptation (in Mt. 4:4 He quoted Deut. 8:3)
2. The second temptation (in Mt. 4:7 He quoted Deut. 6:16)
3. The third temptation (in Mt. 4:10 He quoted Deut. 6:13)
During His Sermon on the Mount
1. In Mt. 5:21 He quoted Ex. 20:13, the sixth commandment
2. In Mt. 5:27 He quoted Ex. 20:14, the seventh commandment; (also compare Mt. 5:31
with Deut. 24:1). (Note: He later quoted some of the same commandments during His
talk with a rich young ruler. See Mk. 10:19)
During His hometown sermon (in Lk. 4:18-19 he quoted Isa. 61:1-2)
During various confrontations with Jewish rulers
1. As He defended His associating with sinners (in Mt. 9:13 He quoted Hos. 6:6)
2. As He expounded on marriage (in Mk. 10:7-8 He quoted Gen. 2:24)
3. As He was asked concerning the greatest of the commandments (in Mk. 12:29-30 He
quoted Deut. 6:4-5)
4. As He rebuked their vain traditions (in Mt. 15:7-9 He quoted Isa. 29:13)
5. As the Pharisees questioned His authority (in Jn. 8:17 He quoted Deut. 17:6)
During His tribute to John the Baptist (in Lk. 7:27 He quoted Malachi 3:1)
During His Triumphal Entry Day (in Mt. 21:16 He quoted Psa. 8:2)
During His cleansing of the temple (in Lk. 19:46 He quoted Isa. 56:7)
During a parable about Israel (in Mt. 21:42, 44 He quoted Psa. 118:22-23; Isa. 8:14-15)
During a question session in the temple (in Mk. 12:36 He quoted Psa. 110:1)
During His last Passover night—predicting the world would hate the disciples as they
hated Him (in Jn. 15:25 He quoted Psa. 35:19; 69:4)
On the cross
1. His fourth utterance (in Mt. 27:46 He quoted Psa. 22:1)
2. His seventh utterance (in Lk. 23:46 He quoted Psa. 31:5)
In summary, our Lord said the Law would be fulfilled (Mt. 5:18) and the Scriptures could not be
broken (Jn. 10:35). It has been estimated that over one-tenth of Jesus’ recorded New Testament
words were taken from the Old Testament. In the four Gospels, 180 of the 1,800 verses that
report His discourses are either Old Testament quotes or Old Testament allusions.
Scripture offers much material for arguments about dividing families
An outburst from Jeff Sessions about a new border policy has people scouring the Bible
People who really want to raise the stakes in this scriptural to-and-fro might consider turning to a verse in Matthew’s Gospel which warns of the dire consequences that may befall anybody who does spiritual harm to children.
If anyone causes one of these little ones…to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
The onus would then be on anyone who advocates confining hundreds of children in sweltering, makeshift facilities, separate from their parents, to explain how this could be for their spiritual benefit.
How Jeff Sessions reads Romans 13 and how my Mennonite Sunday school class does
In the hands of coercive power, the Bible is a weapon.
It is one of the strangest assertions in the Bible. By the time Paul writes this he has experienced hostility from all sorts of authorities. He has been threatened and imprisoned for breaking the law. Eventually he will die for these legal transgressions.
.. perhaps we should give attention to a popular Mennonite theological claim that Romans 13 is to be read in conjunction with Romans 12. This previous chapter speaks to the character of the beloved community, the forms life will take within God’s life in Jesus. The call in Romans 13 is to live this Romans 12 life in “submission,” but never in obedience. It may be incumbent upon our witness to the gospel to participate in a sit-in protesting unjust laws, but we submit to the arrest we know will take place.
.. the Bible is a weapon in the hands of coercive power. Jeff Sessions, like other tyrants before him, utilizes scripture for the good of the empire, to keep people silent, in line, submissive.
Psychos on the Potomac
A new study from Southern Methodist University says the nation’s capital has more psychopaths per person than anyplace else in the country.
No surprise there.
.. The study notes that “psychopaths are likely to be effective in the political sphere” and that “the occupations that were most disproportionately psychopathic were
- C.E.O.,
- lawyer,
- media,
- salesperson,
- surgeon,
- journalist,
- police officer,
- clergyperson,
- chef, and
- civil servant.”
.. So if a chief executive, salesman and media personality becomes a politician, he’s hitting four of the highest-risk categories.
.. Next came the soul-deadening inversion of American values, when Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders cited the Bible to justify ripping children from their parents at the border — including a baby being breast-fed by her Honduran mother. The Statue of Liberty wept.
.. Sessions is on a vile tear. A week ago, he vitiated the policy that made it possible to give asylum to women who are victims of domestic abuse or who are raped or threatened by the sort of gang members Trump decries as “animals.”
.. The week was capped, naturally, with a Giuliani aria — “When the whole thing is over, things might get cleaned up with some presidential pardons,” Rudy told The Daily News in New York — and by the usual torrent of whiny, delusional, deceptive, self-exalting tweets by President Trump.
.. We knew Trump was a skinflint and a grifter. But the New York attorney general deeply documented just how cheesy he and his children are with a suit accusing the Trump charitable foundation of illegal behavior and self-dealing. It was just what Trump always accused the Clintons of doing.
.. The supposed nonprofit was little more than a Trump piggy bank used to settle legal claims and pay off political backers. The good news for Trump was that the prosecutor proposed that he be banned from charitable activities — a fine excuse for someone who obviously wants nothing to do with charity.
.. He has somehow managed to get Republicans in a position where they are cooing over his overtures to North Korea — overtures for which they would have impeached Barack Obama — and looking the other way while he upends the free trade policy that has been party dogma for decades. Meanwhile, the usually peacenik Democrats are assailing Trump for deigning to talk nice with Kim.
.. It makes sense if you think about it: A wannabe dictator who took over the family business from a dictatorial father talking to a real dictator who took over the family business from a dictatorial father.