NT Allusions to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

 

3 EZRA

 

 1.      1.5:  in accordance with the directions of King David of Israel and the magnificence of his son Solomon.  Stand in order in the temple according to the groupings of the ancestral houses of you Levites, who minister before your kindred the people of Israel,

         Mt 6.29:  yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.

 2.      [UBS4] 1.32: In all Judea they mourned for Josiah. The prophet Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and the principal men, with the women, have made lamentation for him to this day; it was ordained that this should always be done throughout the whole nation of Israel. 

          Mt 1.11: and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

 3.      4.38:  But truth endures and is strong forever, and lives and prevails forever and ever.

          1Cor 13.13:  And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.