The Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament Gospels
Prophets & Prophecies of the Old Testament (46th Annual BYU Sidney B. Sperry Symposium)
Provo, UT
Religious Studies Center/BYU Deseret Book Company
2017
123-160
"The purpose of this chapter is to provide for Latter-day Saints a brief examination of some of the ways that the New Testament, specifically the four Gospels, appropriated the language of the Hebrew Bible. This paper will proceed as follows. Each of the four Gospels will be examined individually, first looking briefly at how each evangelist generally integrates the Old Testament into his own text, followed by a closer examination of three specific passages. A summary statement of what can be said about each Gospel writer's approach to the Old Testament based upon those three readings will then follow. The paper will then conclude with a few general observations. It is hoped that by the end of the paper the reader will have a basicunderstanding of how each Gospel writer has adopted and adapted the text of the Old Testament into the New Testament." [AUTHOR]