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| Daniel 9:24 | “Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and for your holy city, to put an end to the transgression and to seal up sin and to make atonement for guilt and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint the most holy place. |
| Matthew 7:12 | Therefore in all things, whatever you want that people should do to you, thus also you do to them. For this is the law and the prophets. |
| John 10:34–35 | 34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods” ’? 35 If he called them ‘gods’ to whom the word of God came—and the scripture cannot be broken— |
| Romans 3:31 | Therefore, do we nullify the law through faith? May it never be! But we uphold the law. |
| Romans 10:4 | For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. |
| Romans 13:8 | Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law. |
| Galatians 3:24 | So then, the law became our guardian until Christ, in order that we could be justified by faith. |
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5:17 to fulfill The Greek word used here, plēroō, refers in this instance to carrying something out. Matthew is saying that Jesus performed or upheld that which was required by the law and met the expectations of the predictions about Him in the writings of the prophets. In Him, the Law and the Prophets reached their fullest expression (e.g., 1:22; 2:15, 17, 23).
Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (Mt 5:17). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (Mt 5:17). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
5:17–20 Jesus defended himself against charges that he defied the law (9:3, 11, 14; 12:2, 10; 15:1–2; 17:24; 19:3; 22:34–36) by insisting that he came to fulfill both the Law and the Prophets, which together amount to the entire OT. The word fulfill may refer to fulfillment of OT prophecies (1:22; 2:15, 17, 23; 4:14; 8:17; 12:17; 13:35; 21:4; 26:54, 56; 27:9). This is suggested by the words all things are accomplished. However, it can also refer to obedience to God’s commands (3:15). This additional meaning is implied by the reference to practicing these commands. Consequently, Jesus’s words imply that he would fulfill all of the OT promises and obey all its commandments. The smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the yod, which resembles an English apostrophe. The stroke of a letter is a slight pen stroke that distinguishes similar letters. Jesus’s statement shows that he regarded the OT as accurate and reliable down to the smallest detail. In keeping with this conviction, Jesus taught that fidelity to the OT witness determines a disciple’s stature in his kingdom. True fidelity to God’s commands is made possible by God’s miraculous work in a disciple’s heart (see note at v. 6).
Stein, R. H. (2017). Differences in the Gospels. In E. A. Blum & T. Wax (Eds.), CSB Study Bible: Notes (p. 1507). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.