New Testament Use of the Septuagint

We have been asked to indicate, for the advantage of some of our junior readers, the reasons why we refer to the fact that the New Testament writers and speakers were familiar with, and quoted from, the Septuagint version of the Old Testament.

We accordingly have pleasure in giving these indications in the following paragraphs, and having pointed out the way, should appreciate an examination of the whole range of the subject by a reader, in order that his conclusions might be printed in these columns for general benefit.

The novice makes the discovery that Jesus and the apostles were evidently quoting from a different version of the Old Testament to that which is bound up in our Bible when he notices, for example, in the record of the meeting of Philip with the Ethiopian chamberlain, the following expression, “The place of the scripture which he read was this:—‘He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb’... etc.”

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Author: H. A. Thompson

Keywords: Septuagint, Septuagint quotes, Septuagint quotes in the New Testament, Septuagint New Testament, LXX, Jesus quoted the septuagint, septuagint usage, use of the septuagint

Bible reference(s): Acts 13:34, Acts 13:41, Acts 15:17, Acts 2:19-20, Acts 2:26, Acts 2:28, Acts 28:26-27, Acts 4:26, Acts 7:14, Acts 7:43, Acts 8:32-33, Amos 5:26, Amos 9:12, Daniel 11:31, Deut 10:20, Deut 6:13, Exodus 1:5, Genesis 46:27, Habakkuk 1:5, Isaiah 10:22-23, Isaiah 29:13, Isaiah 40:3-5, Isaiah 42:4, Isaiah 52:5, Isaiah 53:7-8, Isaiah 55:3, Isaiah 6:9-10, Isaiah 61:1-2, Joel 2:30-31, John 1:23, John 12:34, John 12:40, Luke 3:4-6, Luke 3:36, Luke 4:8, Luke 4:11-12, Luke 4:18, Luke 8:10, Mark 1:2, Mark 4:12, Mark 7:6, Matthew 12:21, Matthew 13:14-15, Matthew 15:8-9, Matthew 21:16, Matthew 3:3, Psalms 10:7, Psalms 14:3, Psalms 16:9, Psalm 16:11, Psalms 2:2, Psalms 51:4, Psalms 8:2, Psalms 89:36, Romans 2:24, Romans 3:4, Romans 3:12, Romans 9:28

Source: “New Testament Use of the Septuagint,” The Testimony, Vol. 2, No. 24, December 1932, pp. 368-9.

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