Northside UMC - Echoes of Scripture

with Ryan Bonfiglio

The NT is never alone...

283

___direct quotations of the OT in the NT

Genesis, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Isaiah

+ countless other allusions, images, metaphors from the OT

that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you will be liable to the council; and if you say, ‘You fool,’ you will be liable to the hell of fire. 23 So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or sister has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

the OT as God's word to the early church

Course Outline

Week 1: WWJR (What Would Jesus Read?)

Week 2: Echoes of Scripture in Matthew

Week 3: Echoes of Scripture in Luke

Week 4: Echoes of Scripture in Paul's letters (I)

Week 5: Echoes of Scripture in Paul's letters (II)

Week 6: Echoes of Scripture in the book of Hebrews

WWJR - What would Jesus read?

the Old Testament (sort of)

order of books

number

of books

OT: 39

} 15

Jesus' OT: 24

Jesus' Bible was not a book...it was a collection of scrolls

no verses, no chapters!

• 12 minor prophets = 1 book
• 1-2 Samuel =1 book
• 1-2 Kings = 1 book
• 1-2 Chronicles = 1 book
• Ezra, Nehemiah = 1 book

Mal. 4:5   Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents, so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse.

2 Chron 36:22 the LORD stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he sent a herald throughout all his kingdom and also declared in a written edict: 23 “Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him! Let him go up.”

Echoes in Translation

Mark 15 > Psalm 22:1

"Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel..." - Isa 7:14 (Hebrew)

"Look, the virgin is with child and shall bear a son,

and shall name him Immanuel..." - Isa 7:14 (Septuagint)

Heb: betulah = virgin

"Look, the virgin (parthenos) shall conceive and shall bear a son, and they shall name him Immanuel..." - Matthew 1:23

34 At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Greek: neanis = young woman

35 When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, “Listen, he is calling for Elijah.”

The curious case of Isaiah 7:14

Jesus didn't speak or read Hebrew

"For what was originally

expressed in Hebrew does not have exactly the same sense when translated into another language.

Not only this book, but even

the Law itself, the Prophecies,

and the rest of the books differ not a little when read in the original."

- Introduction to the book of Sirach

For further thought