Jesus in the OT

The New Testament referes to the OT exensively in dofferent ways, one of those is, they ascribe OT pasages of YHWH to Jesus.

“Second, in addition to the obvious ease with which NT writers (as we have seen) apply to Jesus a variety of OT texts that refer to YHWH, so also a number of other associations that are initially startling become commonplace with repetition”

G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson, “Introduction,” in Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI; Nottingham, UK: Baker Academic; Apollos, 2007), xxvi.

Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament Introduction

The Hebrew Scriptures—or Christian Old Testament—permeate Matthew’s Gospel. Approximately fifty-five references prove close enough in wording for commentators typically to label them “quotations,” compared to about sixty-five for the other three canonical Gospels put together. About twenty of these texts are unique to Matthew. Twelve times Matthew speaks explicitly of a passage or theme of Scripture being “fulfilled.” In addition to explicit quotations, numerous allusions and echoes of Scripture may be discerned in every part of this Gospel, roughly twice as often as in Mark, Luke, or John. Virtually every major theological emphasis of Matthew is reinforced with Old Testament support, often by the addition of segments of texts to the sources Matthew employed, most notably Mark.