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The books most used are Psalms (79 quotations, 333 allusions), and Isaiah (66 quotations, 348 allusions).

The fourth edition of the United Bible Societies' Greek Testament (1993) lists 343 Old Testament quotations in the New Testament, as well as no fewer than 2, 309 allusions and verbal parallels. The New Testament does not simply express its dependence on the Old Testament by quoting it. Thus the New Testament signals at the start an engagement with the Old Testament that touches every page and makes great demands on its readers. Matthew begins with an Old Testament genealogy that makes sense only to those who are familiar with the people and events to which it refers ( 1:1-17 ). The New Testament proclaims its indebtedness to the Old Testament on the very first page.