prophecies
The Gospel verses about Christ‘s passion, death and resurrection include many quotes from the Old Testament that mean to show how the coming of Christ was the main point of God’s intervention in the history of Israel’s people. There are at least ten prophecies recalled by Matthew and six are those John spoke about. We can understand the importance of this fact if we consider the Gospel in the Palestinian - Jew environment, where Jewish religious men knew the Bible by heart and, for this reason, they were able to understand readily quotations and cross references.