Years back, I posted a spreadsheet listing every instance where the New Testament directly quotes the Old Testament. I included only direct quotes of OT texts, not allusions or echos of OT language, nor references to OT characters or events.
You can find my analysis of the information here, along with a series of posts highlighting the most quoted books, verses, etc.
This document has always lived as a Google Sheet, available to anyone who finds it on our Resources page. One such person, the keen and studious Matt Kauffenstein, wasn’t happy with Google Sheets. So he took matters into his own hands to convert it into an Excel spreadsheet, which you can now find here.
In addition, Matt improved the sheet with a search feature, so instead of scrolling or using Ctrl-F (Cmd-F on a Mac) to find a particular passage, you can now simply enter the text you want into the search box, and the sheet shows you all the matching results. You can search in this way for an OT text or a NT text.
You can find that improved document here. Both documents will settle down and build themselves a nice little cabin on our Resources page with all the other goodies there.
Thank you very much, Matt, for creating this for us and making it available to our readers!
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