Jesus Quoted the Apocryphal Books?

A TikTok user asks if there are any connections between the Deuterocanonical (or Apocryphal) Books and the New Testament. Jimmy Akin, Catholic Answers Apologist, gives a few citations.

[ironymatt]

Your typical tiktok viewer isn't gonna know what hit them when they see something from Jimmy Akin on that platform

[sunnyjohnson]

Before the Greek Septuagint was begun, the Jerusalem canon was established. It contained just the 39 inspired Hebrew-Aramaic books from Genesis to Malachi, and it PROHIBITED the apocryphal books that were added to the Greek Septuagint! Jesus and the eight writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures confirmed this Jerusalem canon of thirty-nine books, for they all quoted from the Jerusalem canon, but NEVER from the apocryphal books added to the Greek Septuagint. When those eight inspired writers in Greek did quote from the Septuagint, they ignored the apocryphal books!

[dumbidols]

I would add Tobit being referenced in Heb. 13:2, " Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares" - which is literally the story of the book of Tobit.

[Blurjum.]

Most Protestant friends I've spoken to - including an ordained pastor and also a Lutheran pastor's son, have matter of factly told me that they were taught the Catholic Church "added" these books at the Council of Trent. When it's pointed out that no, the "reformers" tossed them out, and the Council of Trent, in light of that rejection, reaffirmed them as inspired Scripture, and that they were included since the late 4th century councils (Hippo, Carthage), they are understandably confused why they were taught otherwise.

[hiswill-r]

Wisdom 2:12-22 has a prophecy of a man who calls himself, "the Son of God, " and outlines those who oppose him as his ways are unlike those of men and his ways are immutable. I would encourage everyone to read it.

[Rattlesnake]

I never knew that about Sirach. Thank you for this explanation.

[timboslice]

Most concise version of this answer I’ve ever heard!

[Dylan_Devine]

When I was trying to discern whether the deuterocanonicals were Scripture, the first book I read was Wisdom of Solomon and the detailed prophesy of Christ's passion in chapter two made me nearly fall out of my chair.

[mosesking]

Paul quotes Sirach 7 “mourn with those who mourn” in Romans 12.

[tristenwilliams]

Dear my Protestant brethren in the comments, stop making excuses as to why you remove books from the Holy Scriptures. Your denial of Christ and his Holy Church causes you to speak rashly and think uncritically.

[JC_Forum_of_Christ]

It does not say in the book of Hebrews to avoid martyred they have a better resurrection. Remember the devil missed quotes the Bible, right

[ChristeEleison]

Thank you for this video Catholic Answers

[christopherjohnson]

"Apocryphal" should be in quotes in the title

[berwynsigns]

I find it so funny when prots say "jews don't accept the deuterocanon so neither should we" yeah but jews also don't accept the new testament, should we throw it out too? 😂

[adamlove]

The book of Enoch is quoted in Jude, but that doesn't make it inspired Scripture. These are very loose criteria for inspiration.

[mellowmartin]

If we were to restrict ourselves to the Jewish books, we would need to keep in mind that the books were not 39. Some books existed together and the number would be 22 books, which correspond with the number of Hebrew letters. There is a problem here. The Greek Septuagint version of those same 22 books, when broken down, may have been more like 42 books, not 39. The New Testament writers more often than not quoted from the Greek Septuagint, so they may have been using three additional books. What are these? The book of Jeremiah most likely included Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremiah (which the Catholic Church sets as Baruch chapter 6 even though it's a distinct book, so the Catholics actually have 47 Old Testament books, not 46). The book of Ezra most likely had 1st Esdras, as well as 2nd Esdras (2nd Esdras was comprised of Ezra-Nehemiah). Josephus, the 1st century scholar, makes use of 1st Esdras in Antiquities of the Jews Book 11. Saint Jerome supposedly removed 1st Esdras despite it being accepted at the Synod of Hippo and 2 councils at Carthage. Regardless, it's not very different from Ezra (although, it has an interesting passage about a discussion between 3 wise men and the Persian king).

The letter of Clement is not part of the Bible, but Clement was a disciple of Paul (just like Luke). Any books he would have used were probably permitted by Paul. So what did he use? The book of Wisdom. He also talks about the story of Judith, which would have most likely come from the book of Judith since no other source is know to talk about her (at least to my knowledge). Besides these books, we must not forget that Jude 14 quotes 1 Enoch 1:9 (or 2:1, depending on the translation). The story of the canon is not so simple, but the Church gave it a simple conclusion... sort of (Western canon of 74 books (not 73) and Eastern canon of 76 books).

[Matthew-]

Just found your channel today, while I am protestant, I have noticed these connections and references as well since I started reading the apocrypha in my KJV cambridge, it has great center column references in the apocrypha. God bless!

[rodrigofernandes]

Sirach 28:2
Forgive your neighbor the wrong done to you;
then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven.

Matthew 6:12
and forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors;

[alisterrebelo]

Thank you Jimmy, wish you guys had done this sooner. I've spent hours combing Jimmy's extensive list and trying to validate them myself. These 2-3 verified references are handy to have in routine apologetics.

[FredML-qktu]

The Jews don't accepted Apocrypha don't lie. Canon of OT are set, way before Yeshua was born. Yeshua didn't quote even 1 verse from your Apocrypha. Stop the lies

"For we have not an innumerable multitude of books among us, disagreeing from and contradicting one another, [as the Greeks have, ] but only twenty-two books"

-Josephus