Enjoy having a solid overview of how Jesus viewed and used the Hebrew Scriptures. Below are presented two witnesses from among sacred name teachers. ", 3. Isaiah prophesied that God would put a new name upon His people. Imperishability "For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished," (NASB, Matt. 2. One and all, sacred name teachers and their converts have become willing to say the New Testament is wrong. has added to the Hebrew text are the very items that lie behind Jesus' illustrate the phenomena. kindled and on the sword which you grasped!" Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Gehenna, but the targum has: " . Matt., 22:42; Mark, 12:36; Luke, 20:42f. Jesus is the Messiah foretold in the Old Testamentthe One who came and was and is to come. Will we follow his footsteps in the matter of making no attempt to vocalize the guessed at pronunciation Yahweh or any of its variations? They wanted to make him look foolish in front of the people and ultimately take him before the Roman governor. We have several reasons to believe the Gospel writers reported Jesus' life and words accurately and did so even at the risk of persecution. Notice how this sacred name teacher maintains his point. A careful analysis of some key Old Testament citations in the Gospel of Mark shows the central narrative of the Gospel of Mark to be about the return of the LORD to Mount Zion, Jesus replacing the temple, and Jesus redefining the people of Israel around Himself. He quoted from the writings of David in an almost perfect quotation. Jesus here combines citations from two Old Testament prophets. Others, as they read, will disregard the words written by the apostles of Jesus and voice their own words. "For The Old Testament was historical. We have the same from the pen of all three gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, and Luke -- three witnesses. The author of Mark's Gospel was an exceptionally gifted writer and his use of the Old Testament is generally much more nuanced than in the gospels that followed, such that when we first recognise that a passage in Mark was written as an allusion to or echo of an Old Testamen. . Agreements with the Proto-Masoretic Text. inspired.". Aramaic: "prophets who proclaim good news to Zion say, `The kingdom identification of John the Baptist as Elijah who "restores" Jesus is made to quote the Greek Septuagint version of Isaiah in order to score his debate point. and it be But the implicit association of Gehenna with Perhaps some were quoted from paraphrased sources such as the Targums.1. By Antonia Leonard May 31, 2022. (the good way), and find rest (nirgw`] for your souls"; and not to the Now, consider Exodus 20:1: " And God spoke all these words, saying . Acts 13:15, f. Quotations in the First Part of John (the Book of Signs) The first part of the Gospel contains nine quotations of the Old Testament. Jesus' 29 "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Luke records the details of the occasion upon which Jesus came to the synagogue he had attended as a child. Mark presents Jesus as the one through whom this prophecy of the return of the LORD to Mount Zion is fulfilled. x, y, 1105, ns. Only the Isaiah Targum reads this way. If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? After that no one was able to ask him anything. saying, "All those grasping a sword by a sword will perish" (Matt verse is alluded to twice in the Apocrypha (Jdt 16:17; Sir 7:17), where, in On Pentecost, Peter quoted this same passage from the Psalms.9 It should be pointed out that this apostle followed the example of Jesus. This one comes from Deuteronomy 6 also. This seems, at first glance, like an error in the New Testament. Then, Daniel sees One like a Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven. Answer (1 of 5): Yes. As if that were not enough, he further had the audacity to compare himself to both Elijah and Elisha. statement. Nor are they able to tell how more than five thousand Greek New Testament manuscripts spread over hundreds of thousands of square miles in a large number of countries could have all been tampered with. He suffered and died at their hands, but was vindicated when God raised Him from the dead and exalted Him as Lord of all, and then vindicated again when His prophecy about the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple was fulfilled. Jesus' parable seems to reflect this orientation: the prob-lem does not lie T he most compelling reason for Christians to read and study the Old Testament lies in the New Testament. The race is not given to the swift but to those that endure to the end. The New Testament shows that Jesus never spoke the name Yahweh when he quoted the Old Testament or at any other time. As it turned out, Jesuss words were fulfilled. We cite here only a very few quoted in the New Testament: Matthew 11:10; 26:24, 53-56; Mark 9:12, 13; Luke 4:17-21; 18:31-33; 22:37; 24:44-47. quotation of Isa 29:13 is quite septuagintal, both in form and meaning (cf. Of course, they are unable to show from historical records when this tampering with the New Testament occurred or who did the tampering. Besides, during the time Jesus lived people were not as concerned as people are today with making word for word quotations. Jesus did not say it. Whatever argumentation and debate these sacred name pseudo scholars may like to enter into regarding the Shem Tob Hebrew translation of Matthew, whatever fable they may have cunningly devised to have this Hebrew work be the original Hebrew New Testament, it still does not have the name Yahweh in a single instance where Jesus quotes the Old Testament. 5:18). Finally, Jesus said the Lord instead of voicing the name Yahweh as he read the Scriptures in his home synagogue. restore [Septuagint: katastesai; Hebrew: lhkyn] the tribes of Jacob." Did Jesus recognize a specific text form of scripture? Part Two. Discern the form of the quote. Matt 3:9 par. This stance is an attempt to safeguard the sacred name movement insistence that ever person is obligated to call God by the name Yahweh. Matthew 11:13, c. "The Matt 11:29 Jesus bids his hearers to take his yoke upon them: "and you "good news" (etiangelion) harks back to the "good news" the Markan tradition. Jesus frequently quotes Scripture from our Old Testament. Back translation signifies little toward providing evidence of an Aramaic original of the Gospels. The Prophets. This may explain Mr 15:28 And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. say, `Behold, your God"' (40:9); or "who proclaims good news of ", Finally, . Moses and other prophets also quote the Old Testament. ", Contact the author for appear so, for his usage of scripture is allusive, paraphrastic, and-so far The fact that Jesus did not say Yahweh as he read forever seals the doom of the sacred name doctrine. like all the Jews of the first century, divided the Old Testament into between Jesus' use of scripture and the Aramaic tradition. because they were part of "collections" of Old Testament books. an abomination [tw'bh] to the LORD"; not to the Septuagint: "Every In the quotation, Jesus says Moses called the Creator God. in the Hebrew: "he poured out [h'rh] his soul to death"; not in the is not significant that these books: Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Jeremiah warns the Israelites not to take Gods presence among them in the temple for granted or think that worship alone without righteousness and justice will guarantee the LORDs blessing on them. Jesus did not speak the name Yahweh. arrogant person is unclean [akathartos] before God. Jesus quoted from the writings of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea, Jonah, Micah, Zechariah, and Malachi. The New Testament as a whole quotes from 34 books of the Old Testament Books. In many cases when Jesus says Lord or God, sacred name people replace these words with Yahweh. According to the bible the first gospel found i it is the Gospel The criterion of dissimilarity argues He was a perfect human with a perfect mind, after all. the sum of the Old Testament was referred to as two collections: the law quotation of Ps 8:3 (ET 8:2) in Matt 21:16 follows the Septuagint. The reason no historical documentation confirms it is simple. 11) and has a series of confrontations with Jewish religious leaders (ch. As he taught the people, Jesus often quoted from the Old Testament. It is clear that if Jesus did not say the name Yahweh as he read these verses, the sacred name doctrine, indeed the whole sacred name movement, has no basis for its existence. be merciful on earth," lies behind Jesus' statement in Luke 6:36: Mark 1:9-11 "In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. with the Aramaic tradition. Besides this, his arguments are convoluted and therefore, his conclusions were skewed. The Peshitta is itself a translation from the Greek New Testament. In no text of the New Testament, not even the Hebrew and Aramaic ones, does Jesus ever speak the name Yahweh. What quotations in the Old Testament are found in Mark's Gospel? An angelic interpreter then explains that the four beasts represent four kings who will rise from the earth. But, how can they overlook the fact they themselves put the name Yahweh into these bibles? Still, he is dedicated to his task. Some speak of it as though it were ink from the pen of Matthew himself. Just as he gave his name to his people forever, he put his name in the temple at Jerusalem forever. What books were in each of the three collections: a. After he was baptized, Jesus went into the wilderness and was tempted. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.". - Books quoted by Jesus and other New Testament writers. 13-14). may be the work of the evangelist. So Let it be stated once more: not one of the Bibles Clover uses to confirm his point has the name Yahweh in the text of Matthew 22:44. paraphrase of Isa 6:9-10 in Mark 4:12 concludes with " . . Ps 118:22: "The son which the builders rejected. It does not have the name Yahweh anywhere. Hebrew speaking people at the time of Jesus, would have used the Hebrew name which we translate as Joshua. They are almost the same, but not exactly. Its center column notes on Matthew 22:42 gives Psalms 110:1 as a reference, nothing more. In the words of institution, Jesus speaks of his blood, "which is poured people, children of Israel, as our Father is merciful in heaven, so shall you Below is given the wording from Deuteronomy. THIS is supposed to PROVE Jesus said the name Yahweh in Old Testament quotations. 1031, n. k, 1062, ns. And Jesus quoted from 24 different Old Testament books. Below, we list many references to the Hebrew Bible that Yeshua spoke in the gospels. Quite pointedly, they deny the words of the New Testament. Who took the name Yahweh out of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament manuscripts and the Hebrew translation of Matthews Gospel? saying on Gehenna (Mark 9:47-48), where he quotes part of Isa 66:24, again Since Luke is clear that Jesus was reading from a scroll, the divergence is not due to Luke (or Jesus) quoting from memory and messing up the passage! When Jesus read from Isaiah, if he was reading from a text similar to the one in existence today, he encountered YHWH three times. Lev19:12 A paraphrase, not a quote at all. Jesus believed that the Old Testament was divinely inspired, the veritable Word of God. possibly because second generation Christians were unaware of the original which the returning Elijah is expected "to turn [Septuagint: first century B.C.E., alludes to Isaiah's parable of the Vineyard and applies Other instances of Jesus referencing Genesis in the Gospels are: Matthew 22:21; Mark 12:17; Luke 20:25 mankind is in the image of God. According to the judgment of sacred name teachers, ones system of faith and practice cannot be based on the New Testament. 15 Two Closing Observations Having said this, we can make two closing points. When he stood up to read and was handed the scroll, he read from the writings of Isaiah the prophet. paraphrase of Isa 6:9-10 in Mark 4:12 concludes with " . Matt 11:29 Jesus bids his hearers to take his yoke upon them: "and you In 1 Eiioch 89:66-67 the temple is referred to as a "tower." Furthermore, it is hardly older that the King James Version of the Bible. The Spirit of the Lord [a]is upon me, because [b]he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of [c]the Lord. Taking on the role of true, suffering Israel, Jesus reconstitutes the people of Israel in himself, bringing salvation to Gods people in a surprising fashion through his death and resurrection. Sacred name teachers often refer to the Shem Tob manuscript as an example of a Hebrew original New Testament. He quoted these words to his Sadducean antagonists. Jesus The Old Testament verse in Deuteronomy has it much the same but includes the Tetragrammaton. comments, input or corrections. The close connection between the Old and New Testament is shown by the number of times the Old Testament is quoted in the New Testament. In There are significant examples in which Jesus' language agrees They are compelled by their doctrine to believe the New Testament is filled with error. Sacred name teachers think he did not know what he was talking about. Septuagint: "his soul was given over (paredothe] to death.". His reference to God demonstrates a very clear difference between calling him Yahweh and calling him the Lord. R. Clover, voices the opinion of the entire sacred name movement when he deals with Jesus quotation of Psalms 110:1 recorded in Matthew 22:44. Few of these quotations could be considered verbatim. I will bring them to My holy mountain and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. 10:5, which quotes from the Septuagint (LXX) Greek Old Testament, instead of from Psa. [Editor's note: Jesus' quote appears to be from the Greek Septuagint translation of the Old Testament rather than the Hebrew Masoretic text used in the KJV. Discern the life of the quoted text in the Jewish community. followed by the gospel of Mark. This presents a major problem for sacred name teachers. Mark's therismos ("harvest") renders literally the Hebrew gsyr, Aramaic was the common language where he grew up, with Greek being the lingua franca for the Roman Empire as a whole, and Hebrew did not begin to wane in Palestine until after the Skip to content And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 1:23. It is another late Medieval Hebrew manuscript of Matthews Gospel. Jesus used God's Word to resist the devil ( Matt 4:1-11, Luke 4:1-13 ) at the beginning of His ministry. Only the Isaiah Targum reads this way. He quoted the Old Testament to the adversary when he was tempted. They will do whatever is necessary to cling to their doctrine. Jesus wanted His listener to know loud and clear that the One that the Psalms promised, the coming Messiah, the Lamb who would take away the sin of the world, had arrived. A second time Jesus quoted the Old Testament scriptures when the devil tempted him to jump from the heights of the temple. Jesus quoted the words, the God or Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. This is an almost exact quotation of Moses writing. Some people dislike reading the Old Testament, thinking it presents God as cruel. Isaiah. This proves the Catholic and Orthodox apologists wrong when The devil came to him and tempted him to turn stones into bread in order to satisfy his hunger. Sometimes Jesus handled the Tetragrammaton in this variety of ways. And who will be able to stand when He appears? statement. Thanks to the Bible What George F. Pentecost gives the number at 885, a few of the allusions given by Bagster's Bible being disputed. 4:4, 7, 10). in the "poetry collection". it. The words, Now that the dead are raised, even Moses at the bush, when he calleth the Lord are the words of Jesus. They have been organized by the three divisions of the Old Testament: Torah(Five Books of Moses), Prophets (or Nevi'im), and Writings (or Ketuvim). But because of the wickedness and rebellion of his people, he destroyed Shiloh and removed his name from that place. 6:16 in the Hebrew, where the Lord speaks through his prophet: "walk in Some completely remake the New Testament according to the specifications of their doctrine. Jesus did not say the last words, doth man live. He further puts the word God for the Tetragrammaton in his quotation. One quote reads, "Let me reiterate: the then 300+ year old Septuagint version of Scripture was good enough for Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul, etc, which is evident in their referencing it over 300 times (out of 360 Old Testament references) in their New Testament writings - and the Septuagint includes seven books and parts of Esther and . Go, fall in the fire which you Matthew 15:4 & Mark 7:10 - Exodus 20:12, Deut 5:16 . And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. For example, Micah 5:2-4 indicates where the Messiah was to be born Bethlehem. In . The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. All the instances when Jesus did not speak the name Yahweh when he quoted the Old Testament added together become a mountain of evidence against the sacred name doctrine. Not in the least. elements may well have been present in the original Hebrew version of Sirach. New Testament as a whole quotes from 34 books of the Old Testament Books. Mr 7:6-7 And he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, Mr 7:10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die., Mr 9:11 And they asked him, Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?. It is probable some were paraphrases of the actual writings. For sacred name people, the New Testament as it exists is not a book to be depended upon for instruction in matters that affect eternal life. The English translations of the New Testament show that Jesus said God, Lord, and other words in place of the Tetragrammaton when he made quotations of Old Testament passages. Verse Concepts. THIS again is supposed to PROVE the doctrine of the sacred name is true. Unfortunately, the Hebrew version says something different from the Greek. Jesus' The fact that Jesus was quoting Psalms 110:1 was already obvious without Clovers lengthy and complicated footnote. test Whats interesting in the chart To be updated later. to think that Jesus read or quoted the Septuagint. The call of Deuteronomy 6:4-5, often referred to as the Shema (the first Hebrew word in v. 4, which means "Hear!"), is one of the most important texts of the old covenant mediated by Moses between God and the nation of Israel. "nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom." They freely express their opinion concerning how much confidence should be placed in what the New Testament says. When the sacred name advocate comes face to face with his nemesis, the New Testament, he is compelled to go either of two ways. Every prophecy of Jesus in the Old Testament was fulfilled by Jesus before he died. As a well-taught Jewish boy in the first century, He would have gone through the normal Torah instruction all boys His age did. Both All who love and uphold what the Scriptures say can only stand by and shake their heads in amazement. Again there is the double witness of Matthew and Luke to establish the facts. All of this may be true as far as it goes, but if we think this summarizes the point of the Gospel of Mark, we have seriously misread it, missing some of its important central themes. However, because of the wickedness of his people, God destroyed the temple. 191-194, 2002). Jesus criticizes Israel, especially its temple leadership, for failing to live according to Gods intention that people of every nation be invited and welcomed to worship the LORD as part of His covenant people. collection" are every quoted. "But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they We cannot know what text he was reading. After that, he put his name in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem. Luke recorded it for future generations. It's important to note that not all of these quotes are direct citations or exact copies. Having first put the name Yahweh into their bibles, they quote from these same bibles in support of their doctrine and they are still able to keep a straight face. The immediate concern of this study is the way Jesus dealt with the Tetragrammaton. BUT, the name Yahweh is not in these New Testament quotations. near; repent, and believe in the good news" (Mark 1:15). 26:52), has dictional agreement with Targum Isaiah 50:11: "Behold, all Jesus quotes the passage as containing a reference to giving sight to the blind, but if you look the verse up in your own English Old Testament, you won't find any such reference. Luke tells us that "beginning with Moses and all the Prophets," Jesus "interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself" (Luke 24:27). (Exodus 3:15). Jesus holds Creation together Miracles of Jesus Parables of Jesus Home References Copyright 2010 Steve Clark www.BiblePgs.com Home Of course, Jesus Himself identified John the Baptist, His forerunner, as the Elijah who would come before the Day of the LORD (Mark 9:11-13; Matt 11:7-14). He said Pauls writings as well as most of the writings of Luke were originally Greek. 35, 70, 122; NJB, pp.1646, 1678, 1724.22 [This is an exact quote, oddly placed commas et al.]. The epistrepsai; Hebrew: lush},b] the heart of the father to the son, and to The passages are found all over the Old Testament. Scripture appears in the mouth of Jesus four times: 6:35; 10:34; 13:18; 15:25. No manuscript of the New Testament supports the sacred name position that Jesus said the name Yahweh as he quoted the Old Testament. . Curiously, both of these elements are found in Sir 48:10, in In the original Old Testament passage, there is no reference to making the blind see. The These sections of his work he called retroversion. Retroversion was nothing more than back translating from Greek to Aramaic. The book of Timothy is found in the New testament. For example (1:13-14), the forty days in the wilderness, after the baptism of Jesus, is in its entirety a direct allusion to Old Testament passages about Elijah and Moses. The parable of the But sacred name teachers do not care what the Bible says. This indicated that he was the anointed one. The manuscripts of the LXX include the Codex Vaticanus and the Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th century AD/CE and the Codex Alexandrinus of the 5th century. "Become merciful just as your Father is merciful.". Matthew 10:4. The sacred name movement lacks any solid ground upon which to base its theory that Jesus spoke the name Yahweh when quoting the Old Testament. He approached the Ancient of Days and was escorted in before Him. even once! Sure, there are poetic portions (e.g., the Psalms) and apocalyptic portions which are highly symbolic (e.g., Ezekiel), but Jesus understood the historical portions to be, well . Jesus was not just disrupting the business of temple merchants and criticizing the temple leadership. shifted the thrust of the prophetic indictment against the priestly establishment. These scholars imagine not unlike sacred name teachers that they have the ability by their collective expertise to determine the authenticity of the more that 1,500 sayings of Jesus6 in the gospels. Jesus taught Gods will for his followers by his steadfast refusal to voice the Tetragrammaton. (the good way), and find rest (nirgw`] for your souls"; and not to the Mark makes many other allusions to the Old. ), Bible Study 101: Learn to Study the Bible, Bible Study 201: Learn to teach the Bible, Quotations: Where Scripture quotes Scripture, Maps, charts, reference works, websites & tools. Sacred name teachers would gain as much support for their doctrine from quoting my Hebrew New Testament as from quoting the Shem Tob or the DuTillet manuscripts. Truth seekers accept the New Testament writings as God breathed. They can bolster this belief with arguments like: Jesus said he said the name Yahweh to his followers and Scripture does not lie.25 No, the Scriptures do not lie. Several examples from each category will These examples will be treated in more detail. Notice how Jesus did not exactly quote the words of Moses. Not His abbreviations are SRB - The Scofield Reference Bible; AB NT - The Amplified Bible, New Testament; and NJB - The New Jerusalem Bible. The truth is established. They are accepting the rot and theories of men like those of the Jesus Seminar. " We looked at the idea that the 10 Commandments were replaced by the simpler new commandment of Jesus to love others.We showed that the new commandment didn't abolish the 10 Commandments, but was Jesus' example of how to show love to others.Love has always been the intent of the 10 Commandments. He is in point of fact, calling God the Lord.. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. Another look at Lukes record of this event will serve to focus on the words Jesus spoke as he read. It is that, but it is also more. Jesus' scripture quotations and allusions sometime agree with 4. It is not significant that these books: Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon . Both Septuagint, which renders the passage: "and you will find purification He sometimes quoted it when the Jewish sects and leaders accosted him. Isaiah 29:13, in the Hebrew reads "their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote," whereas the Greek version - and the . Matt 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan! He fasted forty days. But you have made it a den of robbers.. ." In the words of institution, Jesus speaks of his blood, "which is poured These men are willing to sink right along with their ship. The Return of the LORD to Mount Zion The Gospel of Mark does teach that Jesus is God. Unbreakability And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. Both Matthew and Luke agree in their recording this occurrence. Under the pressure this want of evidence produces, the sacred name teacher not only will deny the validity of the New Testament, but also will practice subtle deceptions like the one just pointed out. In the next chapter, the book of Malachi ends on an ominous note: Look, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible Day of the LORD comes. That this is a quote from Ps., 110:1, using the name Yahweh, see SRB, pp. Of course, the sacred name teachers are not able to name one person in history who removed the name Yahweh from a single manuscript copy of the New Testament. Verse Concepts. ( John 5:39 NASB ) "altar" (cf. Here is Mark's use of the Old Testament in his gospel. There was now a new, third temple: Jesus Himself, God Incarnate. unlike the Septuagint's trygetos ("vintage"). He was given authority to rule, and glory, and a kingdom; so that those of every people, nation, and language should serve Him (vv. An allusion is a reference to the original source using the the same key words or thoughts without quoting word for word. It would have been impossible for anyone or any group to accomplish such a task without hundreds of people knowing about it. Conversely, Isaiah speaks of "binding up the brokenhearted," a phrase absent in Luke. In There are absolutely NO manuscripts pre-dating the third century A.D. to validate the claim that Jesus or Paul quoted a Greek Old Testament. . Next, let us examine the citation from Malachi. THIS is supposed to PROVE the New Testament is in error. His quote is verbatim from the Septuagint.] For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.'" (Matt. They set verbal traps to ensnare him. (Examples: Matthew 8:4; 22:24; Mark 1:44; 7:10; 10:2-4; 12:19; Luke 5:14; 20:28; 24:44; John 1:45; 7:19; 7:23.) Mark makes many other allusions to the Old Testament, but with such subtlety that these generally pass unnoticed to readers not sufficiently familiar with the Old Testament. "I Desire Mercy, Not Sacrifice." (Matthew 9) "For I desire faithful love and mercy, not sacrifice; the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings." Hosea 6:6 j, k; AB, NT, pp. The Now, Jesus (and by extension, the church, the body of Christ) is true, faithful Israel, the saints of the Most High.. Which Old Testament text did Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, - Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel (one volume), 1 & 2 Kings (one It's what he taught in the synagogue, temple court or wherever he could find an audience. alludes to Isa 19:2 in the Hebrew, which in part reads: "city against However, that is the most restrictive way of counting references. Mark 12:12). They reject the inspiration of the New Testament just as the sacred name teachers do. He said God instead. In contrast, Jesus' parable is directed against the "ruling priests, The Hebrew and the Septuagint say nothing about The reason they think the text has been altered is because it does not contain the name Yahweh. Klyne Snodgrass has argued plausibly that its No seeker of truth would attempt to find errors in the New Testament based on what a particular doctrine says. The Simply reading and believing the New Testament will bring enlightenment to all who desire to learn the truth on these matters. "house of Israel" and the "men of Judah" (cf. (Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4). 5.6.3 272). The fact that Peter declares the Word to be incorruptible8 has no noticeable effect on these teachers. Matthew 4:4 Matthew 4:7 Matthew 4:10 . Jesus does refer to the Old Testament in several passages in Mark. only that God had his eye on the scriptures the whole time and brought about And, of course, the targumic paraphrase is The Hebrew and saying on Gehenna (Mark 9:47-48), where he quotes part of Isa 66:24, again say it." It did not happen. Isa. So that no mistake should be made about what Jesus did here, please note the underlined words in the quotation. forgiven them." A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Prepare the way for the LORD; make His paths straight! (Mark 1: 2-3). Errors in a particular doctrine should be searched for based on what the New Testament says. arrogant person is unclean [akathartos] before God. 40:6 in the Hebrew Old Testament. At this point, he said the Lord instead of the Tetragrammaton. Some of Jesus' quotations and allusions to scripture agree with There is a complete Hebrew New Testament on one of the bookshelves right here in my office. in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets; Acts 24:14, Lee Martin McDonald, James A. Sanders, Editors: The Canon Debate; city, kingdom against kingdom"; the Septuagint, in contrast, reads: it replaced the sacred name with traditional substitutions like ha-shem (the name), adonai, and eloahim. As has been stated previously, in the first instance, he said nothing where the Isaiah scroll had YHWH. Mr 13:14 But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. will find rest [anapausin] for your souls." Also remember that Jesus was since the beginning of creation. Never confuse USE with INTERPRETATION authors do many things with texts. Jesus quotes from the Old Testament are not only found in the New Testament but also in the Old Testament. elements may well have been present in the original Hebrew version of Sirach. The English words God and Lord respectively, are translations of these Greek words. Hebrew under-lying the Septuagint (perhaps even the Septuagint itself), and in the Hebrew, where the wise man claims: "Everyone who is arrogant is Answer: I have not taken the time to make an exhaustive list of every quote Jesus made in the Gospels. Honestly I don't think it will make a difference to this person as he's all over the map, but I'm curious now. (Isaiah 61:1-2The Massoretic Text of The Old Testament, The Jewish Publication Society of America.). you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and By identifying John the Baptist, the one who prepared the way for Jesus, as the one preparing the way for the LORD, Mark clearly indicates that Jesus is the LORD in person. Jesuss remarks about the Son of Man here are clearly a reference to Daniel 7, in which Daniel sees a vision of four beasts, which are judged and destroyed by the Ancient of Days. 10 Old Testament Books Never Quoted in the New Testament. He will suffer for a time under wicked rulers, but will then be vindicated and exalted by God. presence is due to a play on words between "the stone" (h'bn) and and it be We find agreement with the proto-Masoretic text, with the None of the apocryphal books were ever quoted in the New Testament. the parable of the Growing Seed (Mark 4:26-29) Jesus alludes to Joel 4:13 (ET At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. Jesus knew the Old Testament well and often quoted from it. All rights Reserved. It is Interesting, Jesus referred to Psalm 82:6 as They used the E sound in the first syllable when they transliterated Jesus' name into Greek in the New Testament. Isa 5:2),3' institutions which will be destroyed (cf. The fact there was no such mention made shows Jesus did not depart from the normally accepted way of reading the name. Shockingly, Jeremiah then declares that, because of the stubborn wickedness of the Israelites, God will bring about the destruction of His own temple (vv. Deuteronomy was written by Moses and Psalms was mostly written by David, though there are many psalms written by other authors. . Any reference material will have to do, even if it doesnt have Jesus saying the name Yahweh. which the returning Elijah is expected "to turn [Septuagint: (apokathistanei) all things (Mark 9:12) seems dependent on the Septuagint Jesus is the one in whom the LORD personally returns to Mount Zion, bringing both salvation and judgment to Israel. . The weight of the evidence is that Jesus did not speak the Tetragrammaton when he quoted the Old Testament. Jesuss prophecy was fulfilled when the second temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. 3. Jesus is the Davidic Messiah, and yet a suffering servant. The above points apply to this manuscript also. Joseph can be found in the old testament , in the book of is significant here is that NONE of the books within the "apocryphal saying, "Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, I counted only direct, explicit quotations, such as those introduced with "it is written," or "as it says in the Law of Moses.". They cannot tell who did it. The words, he calleth the Lord are not part of the quotation. When confronted by Satan, Jesus appealed to the Old Testament as a source of authority by stating, "It is written," (Matt. Jesus use of Old Testament quotes in the New Testament 21 Matt 19:18-19 "Which ones?" the man inquired. Nothing can mollify their denial of the Scriptures. Mr 11:17 And he was teaching them and saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations? He referred to Scripture as 'the commandment of God' ( Matthew 15:3) and as the 'Word of God' ( Mark 7:13 ). Deut 6:13 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name. In other words, Jesus is true, faithful Israel. 3.) Very noticeable here is the fact that Jesus didnt quote the complete sentence as Moses had written it. verse is alluded to twice in the Apocrypha (Jdt 16:17; Sir 7:17), where, in Instead, they had become inwardly focused, and their buying and selling in the temple courts created a barrier to Gods people participating in temple worship. The Bible is full of references to the Old Testamentand it's not just Jesus who did this. Jesus did not say the name Yahweh in this instance. However, Jesus, as we have seen, identifies himself as the Son of Man of Daniel 7. A review of some of these quotations will demonstrate whether the sacred name doctrinal claims are true. One of them is a message of comfort, while the other is a warning of judgment and cleansing. Matthew 4:1-11 records the battle between Christ and Satan in the wilderness. It is hoped that such nuances of distinction are not altogether lost on every sacred name advocate. The other Bibles Clover refers to do not have Yahweh in the text of Matthew 22. The exception to this is Mark 4:35-41, where Jesus calms a storm, prompting the disciples to ask, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? 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