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I know that the New Testament is somehow the
fulfillment of the Old Testament Prophecy,
so I’m just thinking
Is there a book from the New Testament that
does not quote any text from the Old Testament?

What book/s is/are these?
If you have links to share, I’d appreciate that.

Thanks.
 
jewelz said:
I know that the New Testament is somehow the
fulfillment of the Old Testament Prophecy,
so I’m just thinking
Is there a book from the New Testament that
does not quote any text from the Old Testament?

What book/s is/are these?
If you have links to share, I’d appreciate that.

Thanks.
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Hi,

I looked through my JB and found that all the NT books quote from the OT except the letter to Philemon. Other bibles might be different.

JeanneH
 
Now I am going on the basis of my Greek NT index of OT citations, and keep in mind, there are places in the NT where it will make a reference to the somebody or something in the OT, but it is not actually a Scripture citation. So here is the list.

Philippians
Colossians
1-2Thessalonians
Titus
Philemon
1,2, and 3 John
Jude
Revelation
 
Again, I want to stress that there is a difference between an actual Scripture citation and a cross reference.
 
Thanks for this list of books that have NO OT citations.
Can you also give a list that have NO OT reference?
since as you say they are different.

Thanks again.
 
Thanks for this list of books that have NO OT citations.
Can you also give a list that have NO OT reference?
since as you say they are different.
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Thanks again.
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I don’t have one on hand, though I will do a search later on to see what I can find. This would be complex since an OT reference could be very detailed or so minute that it may be considered as an obscure reference. I would recommend using a good study Bible that has cross-references and look at those books that I listed above and see if there are any that do not give a cross-reference. That may be the simplest way to do it unless someone has made up a list online.
 
I usually use the NASB, because I noticed that it has many cross reference compared to NIV.
I use the online tool biblegateway.com and also bible.cc

Any other version you can suggest?

Thanks.
 
jewelz said:
I know that the New Testament is somehow the
fulfillment of the Old Testament Prophecy,
so I’m just thinking
Is there a book from the New Testament that
does not quote any text from the Old Testament?

What book/s is/are these?
If you have links to share, I’d appreciate that.

Thanks.
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Several new testament books. Here’s a complete list of places the old testament IS quoted in the new (you do the math). The website is called Notes on the Septuagint.

geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/7224/Rick/Septuagint/spindex.htm
 
wow! thanks for the link.

can we also include the Apocrypha?
did NT books also quote from the Apocryphal books?
any examples?
 
jewelz said:
I know that the New Testament is somehow the
fulfillment of the Old Testament Prophecy,
so I’m just thinking
Is there a book from the New Testament that
does not quote any text from the Old Testament?

What book/s is/are these?
If you have links to share, I’d appreciate that.

Thanks.
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Yes, the New Testament is somehow a fulfillment of the Old Testament. Jesus said that his death was the new testament. The new covenant between God and human is Jesus Christ. The fulfillment is not simply words on a page, but the living, breathing, word of God, Jesus Christ.
 
jewelz said:
wow! thanks for the link.

can we also include the Apocrypha?
did NT books also quote from the Apocryphal books?
any examples?
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You’ll find the NT quotes of the Deuterocanonical Books if you look on the website I gave you and select the section titled **“A Collection of References to the “Septuagint Plus” in the New Testament” **(or just follow this link)
geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/7224/Rick/Septuagint/spindex.htm

The NT has major quotes from Judith, Tobit, 1, 2 & 3 Maccabees, Wisdom, and Sirach. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes all of these books except 3 Maccabees as canonical, not apocryphal. The Orthodox churches recognize all of these and 3 Maccabees as canonical.

It’s interesting that some of the ideas Jesus presented are considered “radical leaps” by modern Protestant Christians because they are not found in the Masoretic OT (as presented in the NKJV, NASB, NIV, etc…). But when you read the Deuterocanonical books you find that many of these so-called radical leaps were actually development of themes and ideas originally presented to the Jews in the Septuagint, 100 to 200 years before Christ came upon the earth.

By the way, the two books cited in Jude (Enoch and The Assumption of Moses) have never been considered canonical in any Christian Tradition. They have always been considered Apocryphal. Enoch survives today in fragmentary form, in several version that have significant conflicts. The conflicts between versions may explain why Enoch was never deemed canonical. However, Paul’s mention of being “caught up to the Third Heaven” in 2 Cor 12 is a reference that is strikingly like the description in Enoch. There are no known surviving texts of The Assumption of Moses. There is, however, a painting of The Assumption of Moses on the back wall of the Sistine Chapel, next to a painting of the Ascension of Christ.

Finally, the bible website you use, biblegateway.com, has an option to include an English-language bible that contains the deuterocanonical books, the Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition.

Happy reading.
 
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