The use of the Old Testament (hereafter “OT”) in the New Testament (hereafter “NT”) is a vast topic. So where should we begin? We begin with an explanation of key concepts related to how the NT writers and persons quoted and used the OT. Below are strategic definitions and statistics. There are approximately 350 quotations of the OT in the NT.1 But what is a quotation in this context? G. K. Beale explains: “A quotation is a direct citation of an OT passage that is easily recognizable
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