Gospel quotations

gospel quotations of the hebrew bible

A Summation is at the end.

Those quotes by Yeshua are in Red
Those quotes by the Evangelist are in Brown
Those quotes by others are in Blue

MATTHEW 1:22-23 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. (ISAIAH 7:14)
MATTHEW 2:5-6 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. (MICAH 5:2)
MATTHEW 2:15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. (HOSEA 11:1)
MATTHEW 2:17-18 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. (JEREMIAH 31:15)
MATTHEW 2:23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. (ISAIAH 11:1)
MATTHEW 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. (ISAIAH 40:3)
MATTHEW 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. (DEUTERONOMY 8:3)
MATTHEW 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. (PSALMS 91:11-12)
MATTHEW 4:7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. (DEUTERONOMY 6:16)
MATTHEW 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. (DEUTERONOMY 6:13)
MATTHEW 4:13-16 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. (ISAIAH 9:1-2)
MATTHEW 8:17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. (ISAIAH 53:4)
MATTHEW 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. (HOSEA 6:6)
MATTHEW 11:10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. (MALACHI 3:1)
MATTHEW 12:17-21 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust. (ISAIAH 42:1-3)
MATTHEW 13:14-15 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. (ISAIAH 43:8)
MATTHEW 13:35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. (PSALM 78:2)
MATTHEW 15:4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. (EXODUS 20:12)
MATTHEW 15:7-9 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (ISAIAH 29:13)
MATTHEW 21:5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. (ZECHARIAH 9:9)
MATTHEW 21:13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. ISAIAH 56:7)
MATTHEW 21:16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? (PSALM 8:2)
MATTHEW 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? (PSALM 118:22-23)
MATTHEW 22:31-32 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. (EXODUS 3:6)
MATTHEW 22:35-38 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. (DEUTERONOMY 6:5)
MATTHEW 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. (LEVITICUS 19:18)
MATTHEW 22:43-44 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? (PSALM 110:1)
MATTHEW 26:31 Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad. (ZECHARIAH 13:7)
MATTHEW 26:56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
MATTHEW 27:9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; (ZECHARIAH 11:13)
MARK 1:2-3 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. (ISAIAH 40:3 & MALACHI 3:1)
MARK 2:25-26 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him? How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him? (1 SAMUEL 21:1)
MARK 7:6-7 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (ISAIAH 29:13)
MARK 7:10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: (EXODUS 20:12)
MARK 10:7-8 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. (GENESIS 2:24)
MARK 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. (EXODUS 20:12-16)
MARK 11:17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves. (ISAIAH 56:7)
MARK 12:10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner: (PSALM 118:22-23)
MARK 12:19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. (DEUTERONOMY 25:5)
MARK 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? (EXODUS 3:6)
MARK 12:29-30 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. (DEUTERONOMY 6:4-5)
MARK 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. (LEVITICUS 19:18)
MARK 12:36 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. (PSALM 110:1)
MARK 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: (DANIEL 9:27)
MARK 14:27 27 And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. (ZECHARIAH 13:7)
LUKE 3:4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. (ISAIAH 40:3-4)
LUKE 4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. (DEUTERONOMY 8:3)
LUKE 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. (DEUTERONOMY 6:13)
LUKE 4:10-11 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. (PSALM 91:11-12)
LUKE 4:12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. (DEUTERONOMY 6:16)
LUKE 4:17-19 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. (ISAIAH 61:1-2)
LUKE 4:25-27 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. (1 KINGS 17:9 & 2 KINGS 5:1)
LUKE 5:14 And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. (EXODUS 18:4)
LUKE 6:3-4 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him; How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone? (?)
LUKE 7:27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. (MALACHI 3:10
LUKE 11:30-32 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. (?)
LUKE 17:26-29 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. (?)
LUKE 18:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. (EXODUS 20:12-16)
LUKE 18:31 Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. (?)
LUKE 20:17 And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? (PSALM 118:22)
LUKE 20:28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. (DEUTERONOMY 25:5)
LUKE 20:37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. (EXODUS 3:6)
LUKE 20:42-43 And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool. (PSALM 110:1)
LUKE 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. (DANIEL 9:24-27; 12:1)
LUKE 22:37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end. ISAIAH 53:12)
LUKE 23:30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. (HOSEA 10:8)
LUKE 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. (?)
LUKE 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. (?)
JOHN 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. (ISAIAH 40:3)
JOHN 2:22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. (PSALM 16:10)
JOHN 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: (NUMBERS 21:9)
JOHN 5:46-47 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? (?)
JOHN 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. (ISAIAH 54:13)
JOHN 7:22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. (LEVITICUS12:3)
JOHN 7:52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. (?)
JOHN 8:5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? (DEUTERONOMY 22:22)
JOHN 8:17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. (NUMBERS 35:30)
JOHN 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? (PSALM 82:6)
JOHN 12:14-15 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt. (ZECHARIAH 9:9)
JOHN 12:34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? (PSALM 89:4)
JOHN 12:38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? (ISAIAH 53:1)
JOHN 12:39-40 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. (ISAIAH 6:10)
JOHN 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. (PSALM 41:9)
JOHN 15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. (PSALM 35:19)
JOHN 19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. (LEVITICUS 24:16)
JOHN 19:24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. (PSALM 22:18)
JOHN 19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. (PSALM 69:21)
JOHN 19:36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. (PSALM 34:20)
JOHN 19:37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced. (ZECHARIAH 12:10)

Summation-

MATTHEW Ratio to entire Gospel

by Yeshua..................17 .186
by Matthew..............11 .120 *
by others.....................2 .021
total............................30 .329 *

MARK

by Yeshua..................13 .258 *
by Mark........................1 .017
by others......................1 .017
total.............................15 .258

LUKE

by Yeshua....................20 .208
by Luke..........................1 .010
by others......................2 .020
total..............................23 .239

JOHN

by Yeshua ...................8 .111
by John........................8 .111
by others.....................5 .069
total.............................21 .291

Ratio calculated by columns in each Gospel; Mt 91, Mk 58, Lk 96, Jn 72

In other words, in MATTHEW, Yeshua's quotes made up .186 of the entire Gospel while all of the quotes together made up .329 of the entire Gospel.

* indicates most occurrences between them

In other words, Matthew quoted the Hebrew Bible more than any other evangelist, and there were more quotes in MATTHEW than in any other Gospel.