Matthew 3:15
3:15 So Jesus replied
to him, “Let it happen now,
for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John
yielded
to him.
Matthew 5:17
Fulfillment of the Law and Prophets
5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them.
Luke 2:21-27
2:21 At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Jesus’ Presentation at the Temple
2:22 Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
2:23 (just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),
2:24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.
The Prophecy of Simeon
2:25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
2:26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
2:27 So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,
Romans 15:8
15:8 For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised
on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,
Colossians 2:14
2:14 He has destroyed
what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness
expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.