Depending on who is doing the counting, there are between 600 and 3,000 direct quotes, references, allegories to the Old Testament. Jesus Himself, quoted from it about 100 times. The most quoted book of Scripture is Isaiah, often referred to as the 'Little Bible.'
The Old Testament is frequently used in the New Testament. Its authors wanted the New Testament to be seen as the fulfilment of the Old Testament and Christianity as the natural successor to Second Temple Judaism.
Depending on who is doing the counting, there are between 600 and 3,000 direct quotes, references, allegories to the Old Testament. Jesus Himself, quoted from it about 100 times. The most quoted book of Scripture is Isaiah, often referred to as the 'Little Bible.'
The Old Testament is frequently used in the New Testament. Its authors wanted the New Testament to be seen as the fulfilment of the Old Testament and Christianity as the natural successor to Second Temple Judaism.
It is hard to put a figure on it, because the New Testament authors did not always show clearly that they were citing the Old Testament or, in other cases, that they were weaving a New Testament story around an Old Testament theme. As a result, new references are almost constantly being found. The New Testament contains so many quotations, allusions and echoes of the Old Testament that sometimes it seems the New Testament is the Old Testament in disguise.
There isn't a specific percentage. However, the Old Testament is the New Testament in disguise, and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed.
2Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.
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In the King James version of the Bible the word will is mentioned 2881 times. 2392 times in the Old Testament and 489 times in the New Testament.
The word 'earth' is mentioned 906 times, 170times in the New Testament and 736 in the Old.
'Cannot' is mentioned 175 times in the Bible. (106 times in the Old Testament and 69 times in the New Testament.)
336 times. 54 in the Old Testament and 282 in the New Testament.365
The word "Heaven" is mentioned 266 times in the Old Testament.
82 times and all but one in the old Testament.
Word Christianity was mentioned in the Old Testament the exact number of times that it was mentioned in the New Testament - zero.
It is approximately 20% of the Bible. There is much of the Old Testament mentioned in the New Testament. Isaiah is quoted the most and referred to as the 'little Bible.'
103 times, 26 in the old testament and 77 times in the new testament in the douay rheims version
Queen Esther is a women mentioned in the bible.
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