Did Jesus believe in the Old Testament?

Answer 1

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There is no evidence anywhere in the Old Testament of Jesus appearing or speaking to the Israelites, nor is there any evidence that any of the Old Testament authors was aware of the future Jesus of Nazareth.

Nevertheless, there are some who wish it to be otherwise. Burton L. Mack (Who Wrote the New Testament) has seen a trick used in the classrooms of the School of Theology at Claremont, and which seem to come naturally when studying The Bible. One can ask any question of the Bible and get some kind of answer. At first the study of a text may not seem to support a traditional Christian conviction, or the answer one hopes to find in the Bible. But with a little ingenuity, one can set up the comparison again with other emphases and make the answer come out right. By this means, it is possible to portray Jesus speaking in the Old Testament, even if this is not evident from a normal reading of the text.

Answer 2

A:Strictly speaking, the Old Testament did not exist at the time of Jesus, as the canon of the Hebrew Bible was only established by the Council of Jamnia at the end of the first century. All Jews would certainly have considered the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) to be scriptural and there were other books that had wide acceptance but at that time did not need to be considered inspired.

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Yes Jesus believed in the Old Testament. The last book of the Old Testament was written about 400 years before His birth. Between 90-95 A.D. the Jewish Council of Jamnia revised the canon of the Old Testament, ensuring that the books involved conformed to the Torah, were written in the Hebrew language, written in Palestine, and written before 400 B.C. As a result, the Apocrypha was removed from the canon.

Jesus did indeed believe in the Old Testament. Isaiah prophecied the birth of Jesus. If He did not believe in the Old Testament then He did not believe that He was the Son of God, Which He did and He is. In Mark 6:1-2 (NKJV) It tells of Jesus teaching at the synagogue (which was from the Old Testament). Then He went out from there and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him. And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, "Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands! All four gospels have the account of Jesus observing His last Passover(Passover was Old Testament). Jesus also knew that He must be crucified as foretold in Isaiah(Old Testament). There are many more instances in the Bible where it said that Jesus followed the Old Testament and the Law of Moses. The Old Testament was the old covenant. Jesus Taught the New Covenant (NewTestament). We still must obey God's commandments from the Old Testament but now God makes a new covenant with those who love and obey Him.