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Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament, Part 72

“I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’ ” John 13:18 (NAS)

Jesus, while partaking of His last Passover meal and instituting the Lord’s supper for the congregants of the New Covenant, quotes from a Psalm of David regarding the treachery of a trusted, close friend. 

Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament, Part 69

“And the tempter came and said to Him, ‘If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.’  But He answered and said, ‘It is written, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’ ” (Matthew 4:3-4) NAS

When tempted by the Devil (C. f. Luke 4:3) to whip up a little miracle food for Himself while in the wilderness undergoing Satan’s testing and taunting, Jesus answered and overcame the temptation with memorized Scripture from the Pentateuch. 

Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament, Part 68

“But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, ‘Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ ” 1Corinthians 15:54-55 (NAS)

This Old Testament quote to the Corinthian church by the apostle Paul was originally penned through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by the prophet Hosea.

Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament, Part 67

“And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise. But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also. But what does the Scripture say? ‘Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be an heir with the son of the free woman.’  So then, brethren, we are not children of a bondwoman, but of the free woman.” Galatians 4:28-31 (NAS)

The apostle Paul here cites an Old Testament passage from the first book of the Bible, Genesis. 

Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament, Part 64

“This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,  ‘The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles– The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, upon them a light dawned.’ ” Matthew 4:12-16 (NAS)

Matthew, moved by the Holy Spirit, cites another messianic reference by the prophet Isaiah.