Question: What New Testament Confirmation is given of the Old Testament?
Answer:
a) The N.T. about history
The following is just a starter illustration of the many instances where New Testament references are made to the historical factualness of the Old Testament.
You are invited to note, as you read the N.T. the incredible numbers of supporting Scriptures:
Mt 12:-4 David eating the bread
Mt 12:40 Jonah in the fish
Mt 12:42 The Queen of Sheba coming to Solomon
Lk 4:25,26 Elijah going to the widow
Lk 4:27 Naaman cleansed of leprosy
Lk 12:29- Sodom and Gomorrah
Jn 3:14 Moses and the serpent
Jn 4:6 Jacob giving a field
Acts 7:2-50 Detailed history of Israel
Acts 13:17-23 Overall history of Israel
Rom 4:10 Abraham believing
Rom 4:19 Abraham 100 years old
Rom 9:10-12 Rebekah and children
b) The New Testament about prophecy
It is suggested by scholars that there are over 300 prophecies that Jesus Christ fulfilled.
The N.T. is full of references to the O.T. prophecies. The following is, again, merely a starter selection taken from Matthew’s Gospel, and the student is invited to go through the N.T. and note the many similar references:
1:22,23 Jesus to be born of a virgin
2:5,6 Born in Bethlehem
2:15 He would come out of Egypt
2:17,18 There would be weeping over children
2:23 He would live in Nazareth
3:3 The coming of John the Baptist
4:13-16 He would minister in Galilee
