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Matthew's Gospel contains more refereences to the Old Testament than any other New Testament book. Sometimes the author pointed to the Old Testament as prefiguring events in his Gospel, sometimes he would just write passages that reflected Old Testament passages and let the discerning reader find the parallel passage in the Old Testament. He wanted his Gospel to be seen as the successor to the Hebrew scriptures.
AnswerSome see prophecies in the Old Testament and believe they were fulfilled in New Testament times. Whether those Old Testament passages were really prophecies is a matter of selective interpretation, and whether they were fulfilled in the New Testament is a matter of faith.
Jesus quoted from 24 different Old Testament books. The New Testament as a whole quotes from 34 books of the Old Testament Books. Many of of the teachings of Jesus often expand and define the meaning of the Old Testament such as found in the teaching from the Sermon on the Mount after quoting the key passages.
Saviour appears in these four passages in the Old Testament; 2 Samuel 22:3, Is. 19:20, Is. 43:11, and Is. 49:26.
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, but during the third and second centuries B.C. the Old testament was translated into the Greek Septuagint as the Hebrew language was dying out. The people needed the Scriptures in the tongue they understood.