NT Allusions to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

 

1 Maccabees

 

1.      1.54: Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding towns of Judah,

         Mt 24.15: "So when you see the desolating sacrilege standing in the holy place, as was spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),

         [UBS4] Mk 13.14: But when you see the desolating sacrilege set up where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains

 2.      2.21:  Far be it from us to desert the law and the ordinances.

          Mt 16.22:  And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "God forbid it, Lord! This must never happen to you."

 3.      2.28:  Then he and his sons fled to the hills and left all that they had in the town.

          Mt 24.16 (*-18): then those in Judea must flee to the mountains; the one on the housetop must not go down to take what is in the house; the one in the field must not turn back to get a coat.

 4.      2.52: Was not Abraham found faithful when tested, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness?

          Heb 11.17: By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He who had received the promises was ready to offer up his only son,

 5.      2.60: Daniel, because of his innocence, was delivered from the mouth of the lions.

          2Tim 4.17: But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.

 6.      3.6: Lawbreakers shrank back for fear of him; all the evildoers were confounded; and deliverance prospered by his hand.

          Lk 13.27: But he will say, “I do not know where you come from; go away from me, all you evildoers!”

 7.      [UBS4] 3.45, 51:  Jerusalem was uninhabited like a wilderness; not one of her children went in or out.  The sanctuary was trampled down, and aliens held the citadel; it was a lodging place for the Gentiles.  Joy was taken from Jacob; the flute and the harp ceased to play.  ....  Your sanctuary is trampled down and profaned, and your priests mourn in humiliation.

          Lk 21.24: they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

 8.      3.49: They also brought the vestments of the priesthood and the first fruits and the tithes, and they stirred up the nazirites who had completed their days;

          Ac 21.26: Then Paul took the men, and the next day, having purified himself, he entered the temple with them, making public the completion of the days of purification when the sacrifice would be made for each of them.

 9.      3.60: But as his will in heaven may be, so shall he do.

          Mt 6.10: Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

 10.     4.59: Then Judas and his brothers and all the assembly of Israel determined that every year at that season the days of dedication of the altar should be observed with joy and gladness for eight days, beginning with the twenty-fifth day of the month of Chislev.

          Jn 10.22: At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

 11.     5.15: they said that the people of Ptolemais and Tyre and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles, had gathered together against them "to annihilate us."

          Mt 4.15: "Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali, on the road by the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—

 12.     [UBS4] 6.7:  that they had torn down the abomination that he had erected on the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls as before, and also Beth-zur, his town.

          Mt 24.15: So when you see the desolating sacrilege standing in the holy place, as was spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand)

 13.     7.41: When the messengers from the king spoke blasphemy, your angel went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand of the Assyrians.

          Ac 12.23: And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

 14.     8.16: They trust one man each year to rule over them and to control all their land; they all heed the one man, and there is no envy or jealousy among them.

          Jas 4.2: You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder.  And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask.

 15.     9.39: They looked out and saw a tumultuous procession with a great amount of baggage; and the bridegroom came out with his friends and his brothers to meet them with tambourines and musicians and many weapons.

          Jn 3.29: He who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. For this reason my joy has been fulfilled.

 16.     10.25: So he sent a message to them in the following words:  King Demetrius to the nation of the Jews, greetings.

          Ac 10.22: They answered, "Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say."

 17.     10.29 [-30]: "I now free you and exempt all the Jews from payment of tribute and salt tax and crown levies, and instead of collecting the third of the grain and the half of the fruit of the trees that I should receive, I release them from this day and henceforth. I will not collect them from the land of Judah or from the three districts added to it from Samaria and Galilee, from this day and for all time.

          Lk 15.12: The younger of them said to his father, "Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.' So he divided his property between them.

 18.     11.30, 33, etc.:  “...the nation of the Jews....”

          Ac 10.22:  “...the Jewish nation....”

 19.     12.6:  The high priest Jonathan, the senate of the nation, the priests, and the rest of the Jewish people to their brothers the Spartans, greetings.

          Ac 5.21: When they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and went on with their teaching. When the high priest and those with him arrived, they called together the council and the whole body of the elders of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

 20.     12.9: Therefore, though we have no need of these things, since we have as encouragement the holy books that are in our hands,

          Rom 15.4: For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, so that by steadfastness and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

 21.     12.17:  We have commanded them to go also to you and greet you and deliver to you this letter from us concerning the renewal of our family ties.

          Mt 9.38:  therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

 22.     13.2: and he saw that the people were trembling with fear. So he went up to Jerusalem, and gathering the people together

          Heb 12.21:  Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I tremble with fear."

 23.     14.41:  In the one hundred seventieth year the yoke of the Gentiles was removed from Israel,

          Heb 5.6: as he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."

 24.     15.21: Therefore if any scoundrels have fled to you from their country, hand them over to the high priest Simon, so that he may punish them according to their law.

          Ac 9.2: and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.