Quotations from the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament


There are in all two hundred and eighty-three direct quotations from the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament.
XII, Greek manuscript of the Book of Enoch, with the text quoted by Epistle of Jude''
In about ninety instances, the Septuagint is literally quoted. In around eighty further instances, the quote is altered in some way. For example, at Jesus says "Did ye never read in the scriptures that the stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner?" - a reference to. Likewise,. The Epistle of Jude quotes the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch and the Assumption of Moses.
Other quotations are sometimes made directly from the Hebrew text.

Formatting

When the New Testament was written, the Old Testament was not divided into chapters and verses, and there is therefore no uniform standard for these quotes and the authors had to provide contextual references: