The New Testament alludes to the Deuterocanonicals

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We found more than 30 places where the New Testament seems to allude to the Deuterocanonical, or Apocryphal, books.

 

 

Introduction

 

Almost all Christians accept two batches of Sacred Scripture:

A subset of Christians, namely Orthodox and Catholic, accept a third batch as Scripture. That third batch is the Deuterocanonical books.

  • The word “deutero” means in-between. The Deuterocanonical books are situated in-between. They are in-between the Old Testament and the New Testament.
  • The word “canonical” means official. The Deuterocanonical books are situated in-between the official Old Testament and the official New Testament.

Protestants refer to those books as Apocryphal. They use that word to signify that these extra books are “not in the Canon” of official Scripture according to Protestants.

Catholics say there are seven Deuterocanonical books; Orthodox have four more.

We wondered if these Deuterocanonical books are referred to in the New Testament.

We investigated this. We found more than 30 allusions in the New Testament to verses in the Deuterocanonical books.

 

Allusions

 

Matthew 2:16. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

Wisdom 11:7. to rebuke the decree for the slaying of babies, you gave them abundant water beyond all hope,

 

Matthew 6:20. but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

Sirach 29:11. Bestow your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High; And it shall profit you more than gold.

 

Matthew 7:16. By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Sirach 27:6. The fruit of a tree declares the husbandry thereof; So is the utterance of the thought of the heart of a man.

 

Matthew 7:20. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Sirach 27:6. The fruit of a tree declares the husbandry thereof; So is the utterance of the thought of the heart of a man.

 

Matthew 9:36. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Judith 11:19. And I will lead you through the midst of Judea, until you come to Jerusalem. I will set your seat in the midst of it. You will drive them as sheep that have no shepherd, and a dog will not so much as open his mouth before you; for these things were told me according to my foreknowledge, and were declared to me, and I was sent to tell you.”

 

Matthew 16:18. I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Wisdom 16:13. For you have authority over life and death, And you lead down to the gates of Hades, and lead up again.

 

Matthew 22:25. Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.

Tobit 3:8. because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the name of any one of them.

Tobit 7:11. I have given my child to seven men, and whenever they came in to her, they died in the night. But for the present be merry.” And Tobias said, “I will taste nothing here, until you all make a covenant and enter into that covenant with me.”

 

Matthew 23:37. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

2 Esdras 1:30. I gathered you together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But now, what should I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence.

 

Matthew 27:43. He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

Wisdom 2:18. For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him, and he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries.

Mark 4:5. Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

Sirach 40:15. The children of the ungodly shall not put forth many branches; And are as unclean roots upon a sheer rock.

 

Mark 4:16. These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

Sirach 40:15. The children of the ungodly shall not put forth many branches; And are as unclean roots upon a sheer rock.

 

Mark 4:17. They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

Sirach 40:15. The children of the ungodly shall not put forth many branches; And are as unclean roots upon a sheer rock.

 

Mark 12:20. There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.

Tobit 3:8. because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the name of any one of them.

Tobit 7:11. I have given my child to seven men, and whenever they came in to her, they died in the night. But for the present be merry.” And Tobias said, “I will taste nothing here, until you all make a covenant and enter into that covenant with me.”

 

Luke 1:52. He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.

Sirach 10:14. The Lord cast down the thrones of rulers, And set the meek in their stead.

 

Luke 20:29. There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.

Tobit 3:8. because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the name of any one of them.

Tobit 7:11. I have given my child to seven men, and whenever they came in to her, they died in the night. But for the present be merry.” And Tobias said, “I will taste nothing here, until you all make a covenant and enter into that covenant with me.”

 

Luke 21:24. They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Sirach 28:18. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: Yet not so many as those who have fallen because of the tongue.

 

John 5:18. For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Wisdom 2:16. We were regarded by him as worthless metal, and he abstains from our ways as from uncleanness. He calls the latter end of the righteous happy. He boasts that God is his father.

 

John 6:35. Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

Sirach 24:21. They that eat me will yet be hungry; And those who drink me will yet be thirsty.

 

John 10:22. It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.

1 Maccabees 4:59. And Judas and his kindred and the whole congregation of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their seasons from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Chislev, with gladness and joy.

 

Acts 1:7. He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

Wisdom 8:8. Or if you are eager for wide experience, she knows the past, she forecasts the future; she knows how to turn maxims, and solve riddles; she has foreknowledge of signs and wonders, of the unfolding of the ages and the times. (Universalis translation)

 

Romans 9:21. Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

Wisdom 15:7. For a potter, kneading soft earth, laboriously molds each article for our service. He fashions out of the same clay both the vessels that minister to clean uses, and those of a contrary sort, all in like manner. What shall be the use of each article of either sort, the potter is the judge.

Sirach 33:13. As the clay of the potter in his hand, All his ways are according to his good pleasure; So men are in the hand of him that made them, To render to them according to his judgement.

 

Ephesians 6:13. Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Wisdom 5:17. He will take his jealousy as complete armor, and will make the whole creation his weapons to punish his enemies:

 

Ephesians 6:14. Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Wisdom 5:18. He will put on righteousness as a breastplate, and will wear impartial judgement as a helmet.

 

Ephesians 6:16. above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

Wisdom 5:19. He will take holiness as an invincible shield.

 

Ephesians 6:17. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Wisdom 5:20. He will sharpen stern wrath for a sword. The world will go with him to fight against his frenzied foes.

 

Hebrews 1:3. who is the refulgence of his glory, the very imprint of his being, and who sustains all things by his mighty word. When he had accomplished purification from sins, he took his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high, (NAB translation)

Wisdom 7:26. For she is a reflection of everlasting light, an unspotted mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness.

 

Hebrews 11:5. By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

Genesis 5:24. Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

Wisdom 4:10. Being found well-pleasing to God, he was loved. While living among sinners he was transported.

Sirach 44:16. Enoch pleased the Lord, and was translated, Being an example of repentance to all generations.

Sirach 49:14. No man was created upon the earth such as was Enoch; For he was taken up from the earth.

 

Hebrews 11:35. Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

2 Maccabees 7:14. Being near to death he said this: “It is good to die at the hands of men and look for the hope which is given by God, that we will be raised up again by him. For as for you, you will have no resurrection to life.”

 

Revelation 1:4. John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

Tobit 12:15. I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and go in before the glory of the Holy One.

 

Revelation 8:7. The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burned up, and one third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

Wisdom 16:22. But snow and ice endured fire, and melted not, That men might know that fire was destroying the fruits of the enemies, Burning in the hail and flashing in the rains;

Sirach 39:29. Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, All these are created for vengeance;

 

Revelation 19:11. I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

2 Maccabees 11:8. As they were there, close to Jerusalem, a horseman appeared at their head in white apparel, brandishing weapons of gold.

 

Revelation 21:19. The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

Tobit 13:17. The streets of Jerusalem will be paved with beryl, carbuncle, and stones of Ophir.

 

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