there is many stories in the Old Testament that are written by many authors
Did you mean, "How many times DID Jesus quote from THE old testament?" If so, He quoted from the Old Testament 84 times.
There are 83 direct or paraphrases from the Old Testament.
The Bible has 60+ books in it, so there are many authors, and scholars dispute about the authorship of one book or another all of the time. Here are a few of the traditional authors: Old Testament: Moses, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul
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.
A:All the books in the New Testament were originally written in Greek, so it was the authors themselves who were responsible for the Greek version. It was left to future generation to select from the many books available which ones they felt were best suited to inclusion in the New Testament.
Most of the the first four books of the New Testament is about Jesus, so many of those verses are about Him. There are many verses in the Old Testament about His coming.
In the Old Testament, there are instances where women were devalued due to the patriarchal society prevalent during that time. Women were often considered inferior to men and were subjected to social and cultural norms that limited their roles and rights. This devaluation is reflected in the texts and practices of the Old Testament.
Judaism-believes the Old Testament and that the messiah which the Old Testament fortells has not come. Christianity- believes the Old Testament and the New Testament and that the Messiah which the Old Testament fortells has already come. John 3:16 (in New Testament) "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that who so ever believes in Him shall not parish but have everlasting life. " Jesus Christ is this Son/Messiah, according to the New Testament.
Paul wrote roughly half of the New Testament, which directly quotes the Old Testament 250 times, and if you count partial quotes, it is over 1000. So about half of 250 is 125, and half of 1000 is 500. So roughly, give or take a hundred or more, he directly quotes the old testament 125 times, and overall he quotes or references the old testament 500 times(that includes the 125). I know this isn't scientific, but it's better than nothing.
The word "grow" is used in the Old Testament 114 times, so the premise of the question is faulty.
Many Gnostics saw the God of the Old Testament as an angry and capricious god, who demanded sacrifices, encouraged genocide and was vain, in that he demanded constant worship. They could not imagine that the God of the Old Testament could be the same god as the loving god of the New Testament. Because they could not see the Old Testament God and the New Testament God to be the same, they decided that the Old Testament God was a lesser god, who was not even aware of the New Testament God in the higher heavens. Thus, he believed himself to be the only God and the Lord of creation, but there was (in Gnostic view) a higher God. To many, it was not so much that the Old Testament God was evil, it was that he was wholly ignorant.
Because God ordained it to be so.