Does the New Testament Misquote the Old Testament?
Sometimes when a New Testament writer quotes the Old Testament, the two passages do not match precisely. Is the New Testament writer misquoting the Old Testament? Or is there another explanation? https://hopecollege.com Luke records that when Jesus began his ministry, he went to the synagogue in Nazareth on the Sabbath day . When he stood up to read the Scriptures, “The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him” (Luke 4:17 ). Jesus read the description of a climactic arrival of the anointed one from Isaiah 61:1–2, excluding the last half of verse two. That omission is understandable, but if you look at Luke 4:18 –19 and Isaiah 61:1–2 side by side, several dissimilarities in what Jesus read are readily apparent. In the original Old Testament passage, there is no reference to making the blind see. Conversely, Isaiah speaks of “binding up the brokenhearted,” a phrase absent in Luke. Since Luke is clear that Jesus was reading from a scroll, the divergence is...