Quotations from the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament

There are in all 283 direct quotations from the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) in the New Testament.^[1]

New Testament authors also quote from other sources. The synoptic gospels have Jesus quoting from or alluding to deutero-canonical works several times, such as the Wisdom of the Son of Sirach. Paul makes three quotations from classical poets. The Epistle of Jude quotes the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch (1 Enoch 1:9) and the Assumption of Moses.

^ Easton's Bible Dictionary, "Quotations" (New and revised ed., T. Nelson and Sons, 1897) "There are in all two hundred and eighty-three direct quotations from the Old Testament in the New, but not one clear and certain case of quotation from the Apocrypha (q.v.).

[1] Easton's Bible Dictionary, "Quotations" (New and revised ed., T. Nelson and Sons, 1897) "There are in all two hundred and eighty-three direct quotations from the Old Testament in the New, but not one clear and certain case of quotation from the Apocrypha (q.v.).

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