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Jesus' quotes of the Old Testament

This contains Jesus quoting OT as found in the four Gospels.

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Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Matt 4:4		Luke 4:4

Deut 8:3

Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
Matt 4:7		Luke 4:12

Deut 6:16

Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”
Matt 4:10		Luke 4:8

Deut 6:13

“You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’
Matt 5:21

Ex 20:13
Deut 5:17

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’
Matt 5:27

Ex 20:14
Deut 5:18

“It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’
Matt 5:31

Deut 24:1

“Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.’
Matt 5:33

Lev 19:12 Num 30:2
Deut 23:21

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’
Matt 5:38

Ex 21:24 Lev 24:20
Deut 19:21

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
Matt 5:43

Lev 19:18

Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’.
Matt 7:23

Ps 6:8

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matt 9:13

Hos 6:6

For I have come to turn 'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law — a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household'.
Matt 10:35-36		Luke 12:53

Mic 7:6

This is the one about whom it is written: ‘I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’
Matt 11:10		Luke 7:27

Mal 3:1

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If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
Matt 12:7

Hos 6:6

This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand." In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “ ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’"
Matt 13:14-15	Mark 4:12	Luke 8:10

Isa 6:9-10

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
Matt 15:4	Mark 7:10

Ex 20:12
Deut 5:16
Ex 21:17
Lev 20:9

“ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’”
Matt 15:8-9	Mark 7:6-7

Isa 29:13

But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’
Matt 18:16

Deut 19:15

"Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’”
Matt 19:4	Mark 10:6

Gen 1:27
Gen 5:2

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’
Matt 19:5	Mark 10:7-8

Gen 2:24

“Which ones?” the man inquired. Jesus replied, “ ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Matt 19:18-19	Mark 10:19	Luke 18:20

Ex 20:12-16
Deut 5:16-20
Lev 19:18

“It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ you are making it a ‘den of robbers.’”
Matt 21:13	Mark 11:17	Luke 19:46

Isa 56:7
Jer 7:11

“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, “ ‘From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise’?”
Matt 21:16

Ps 8:2

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
Matt 21:42	Mark 12:10-11	Luke 20:17

Ps 118:22-23

‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
Matt 22:32	Mark 12:26	Luke 20:37

Ex 3:6
Ex 3:15-16

Gospel references

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Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
Matt 22:37

Deut 6:5

And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matt 22:39	Mark 12:31

Lev 19:18

“ ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” ’
Matt 22:44	Mark 12:36	Luke 20:42-43

Ps 110:1

For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
Matt 23:39		Luke 13:35

Ps 118:26

“So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—
Matt 24:15	Mark 13:14

Dan 9:27

Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: “ ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
Matt 26:31	Mark 14:27

Zech 13:7

“Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
Matt 26:64	Mark 14:62

Ps 110:1
Dan 7:13

About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”—which means,
Matt 27:46	Mark 15:34

Ps 22:1

Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?
	Mark 8:18

Jer 5:21
Ezek 12:2

where “ ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’
	Mark 9:48 Mark 9:44 ^Fn1 Mark 9:46 ^Fn1

Isa 66:24

Everyone will be salted with fire.
	Mark 9:49

Lev 2:16
Ezek 43:24

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
	Mark 12:30

Deut 6:4-5
Jos 22:5

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
		Luke 4:18-19

Isa 61:1-2

Gospel references

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It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”
		Luke 22:37

Isa 53:12

Then “ ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!” ’
		Luke 23:30

Hos 10:8

Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.
		Luke 23:46

Ps 31:5

It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
			John 6:45

Isa 54:13

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are gods’?
			John 10:34

Ps 82:6

“I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: ‘He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me.’
			John 13:18

Ps 41:9

But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’
			John 15:25

Ps 69:4

^Fn1 Not found in older manuscripts.

References gleaned from parts of: Philipps, H. D. (2009). Old Testament Quotes in the New Testament. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
From title page: This set of parallel passages was derived from cross-reference information contained within the Holman Christian Standard Bible.

Copyright © 2013 Steve Clark