Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

A light to the revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.

As it was written in the book of the sayings of Isaias the prophet: A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.

Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways plain.

And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

And Jesus answered him: is written that Man liveth not by bread alone, but by every word of God.

And Jesus answering said to him. It is written: Thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

For it is written that He hath given his angels charge over thee that they keep thee.

And that in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone.

And Jesus answering, said to him: It is said: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart,

To preach deliverance to the captives and sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of reward.

This is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

To whom he said: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to the rest in parables, that seeing they may not see and hearing may not understand.

He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself.

Behold your house shall be left to you desolate. And I say to you that you shall not see me till the time come when you shall say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Thou knowest the commandments: Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Honour thy father and mother.

Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.

But he looking on them, said: What is this then that is written, The stone, which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?

Now that the dead rise again, Moses also shewed at the bush, when he called the Lord: The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

And David himself saith in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand,

Till I make thy enemies thy footstool.

For I say to you that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me. And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning me have an end.

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us. And to the hills: Cover us.

And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.

He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias.