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Old Testament Passages
Quoted in the New Testament

Samuel G. Dawson


Jesus and his apostles quoted or alluded to the Old Testament 300 times. Those New Testament quotes provide some of the most valuable and interesting verses in all the Bible, for two reasons. The New Testament quotes give God-approved commentaries on the Old Testament. Likewise, the Old Testament passages shed light on the meanings of difficult New Testament verses. This chapter tells where all the Old Testament passages are found in the New Testament and offers a procedure for making it easy to recognize them.
Copyright © 2005 by Samuel G. Dawson and Patsy Rae Dawson
Appendix 1 from the book How to Study the Bible: A Practical Guide to Independent Bible Study. See Rights Notice below.

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Old Testament Passages
Quoted in the New Testament

Samuel G. Dawson

 

Jesus and his apostles quoted or alluded to the Old Testament 300 times. Those New Testament quotes provide some of the most valuable and interesting verses in all the Bible, for two reasons. The New Testament quotes give God-approved commentaries on the Old Testament. Likewise, the Old Testament passages shed light on the meanings of difficult New Testament verses.

Appendix 1 in How to Study the Bible: A Practical Guide to Independent Bible Study lists all these verses by Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, etc. with the New Testament references beside them. You'll find that list very valuable.

If your Bible doesn't have many marks or colors in it, get a highlighter (like a green one) that you'll never use again for any other purpose. Don't get a yellow one; don't get one you'll use for some other purpose, but get a green one. Then take the chart in Appendix 1 and mark in green all the verses quoted from the Old Testament.

If we're reading in Dt. 24.1-4 and it's highlighted in green, that immediately tells us somebody in the New Testament quoted this verse:

When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife, and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.

Then, out in the margin, write in green ink where that passage is quoted, Mt. 5.31, where Jesus said:

And it was said, “Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce.”

In this way, our Bible becomes a tool where anytime we see a passage with green verses, we immediately realize, “These verses are talked about in the New Testament by inspiration and that will give me an infallible interpretation of them.”

Suppose we're studying Amos or Obadiah and ask, “What do I remember about this?” If we've marked the verses, we know somebody used that passage in the New Testament. Following this tip will help us out a tremendous amount on those three hundred passages.

Amos 9.11 provides another illustration. About 750 BC, Amos prophesied to Israel about what was going to happen to the Jews after the Babylonian captivity:

In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old; that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations that are called by my name, saith Jehovah that doeth this. (ASV)

James quoted this passage in Ac. 15.16-17 during his discussion with the apostles and the Jerusalem church about whether they should teach the Gentiles:

After these things I will return, And I will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen; And I will build again the ruins thereof, And I will set it up: That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, And all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called…

This is a key verse for this reason. Scofield, in his premillennial Scofield Reference Bible, said Amos 9.11 is the most important passage in premillennialism. He didn't think it'd been fulfilled. Premillennialists still don't think the Tabernacle of David has been rebuilt. The fascinating fact about this passage is that in Ac. 15.16-17, James quoted it. He preached that it was fulfilled, and that was the reason Gentiles could hear the gospel and obey it.

What's the significance of that? Scofield thought the passage hadn't been fulfilled; James said it had. It doesn't make any difference what anyone else says about it. James, speaking by inspiration, said, “This is what Amos was talking about.” He made the point that if the tabernacle had not been rebuilt (speaking of the New Testament church, a spiritual tabernacle, the tabernacle of Heb. 9.24), Gentiles wouldn't have a right to even hear the gospel:

For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands [physical--SGD], like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself [spiritual--SGD], now to appear before the face of God for us…

How does that affect anyone reading this chapter? Most of us are Gentiles, aren't we? If Scofield is right, we don't have the right to even hear the gospel. Yet Scofield isn't right, and the reason we know he's not is because James quoted this passage and applied it correctly in the New Testament. Do we want to trust an inspired commentary or some man's opinion?

If you're interested in the Old Testament and the three hundred passages that are quoted as fulfilled and correctly applied in the New Testament, then this tip may interest and profit you greatly. Look at Appendix 1 and see the wealth of Old Testament information that's found in the New Testament.

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All Old Testament scripture quotations are taken from The New American Standard Bible, © 1960-1977 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All New Testament scripture quotations are taken from The American Standard Version New Testament, © 1901, 1929 Thomas Nelson and Sons. All rights reserved.

Apprendix 1, "Old Testament Passages Quoted in the New Testament Christians," comes from the book How to Study the Bible: A Practical Guide to Independent Bible Study by Samuel G. Dawson © 2005 by Samuel G. Dawson and Patsy Rae Dawson. Used by permission of publisher.

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