Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

This is the man Yesha`yahu was talking about when he said, "The voice of someone crying out: `In the desert prepare the way of ADONAI! Make straight paths for him!'"

But he answered, "The Tanakh says, `Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of ADONAI'"

"If you are the Son of God," he said, "jump! For the Tanakh says, `He will order his angels to be responsible for you. . . . They will support you with their hands, so that you will not hurt your feet on the stones.'"

Yeshua replied to him, "But it also says, `Do not put ADONAI your God to the test.'"h

"Away with you, Satan!" Yeshua told him, "For the Tanakh says, `Worship ADONAI your God, and serve only him.'"

"Land of Z'vulun and land of Naftali, toward the lake, beyond the Yarden, Galil-of-the-Goyim --

the people living in darkness have seen a great light; upon those living in the region, in the shadow of death, light has dawned."

"You have heard that our fathers were told, `Do not murder,'l and that anyone who commits murder will be subject to judgment.

"You have heard that our fathers were told, `Do not commit adultery.'m

"It was said, `Whoever divorces his wife must give her a get.'

"Again, you have heard that our fathers were told, `Do not break your oath,' and `Keep your vows to ADONAI.'

"You have heard that our fathers were told, `Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.'

Then I will tell them to their faces, `I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!'

This was done to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet Yesha`yahu, "He himself took our weaknesses and bore our diseases"

As for you, go and learn what this means: `I want compassion rather than animal-sacrifices.' For I didn't come to call the `righteous,' but sinners!"

This is the one about whom the Tanakh says, `See, I am sending out my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way before you.'

If you knew what `I want compassion rather than animal-sacrifice' meant, you would not condemn the innocent.

This was to fulfill what had been spoken through Yesha`yahu the prophet,

"Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, with whom I am well pleased; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will announce justice to the Gentiles.

He will not fight or shout, no one will hear his voice in the streets;

he will not snap off a broken reed or snuff out a smoldering wick until he has brought justice through to victory.

In him the Gentiles will put their hope."

That is, in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Yesha`yahu which says, `You will keep on hearing but never understand, and keep on seeing but never perceive,

because the heart of this people has become dull -- with their ears they barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, so as not to see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and do t'shuvah, so that I could heal them.'

This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet, "I will open my mouth in parables, I will say what has been hidden since the creation of the universe."h