thanks but where in the new testament did jesus call God Jehovah? ive looked but cant find it
That is because translators of the Christian Greek Scriptures chose to leave it out. The fact remains: Matthew made more than a hundred
quotations from the Hebrew Scriptures. Where these quotations included the divine name [YHWH] he would have been obliged to faithfully include the Tetragrammaton in his Hebrew Gospel account. It was according to some other ungodly practice of that time that when the Gospel of Matthew was translated into Greek, the Tetragrammaton was left untranslated!
ALL the writers of the New Testament quoted verses from the Hebrew text or from the
Septuagint where the divine name appears. For example....in Peter's speech in Acts 3:22 a quotation is made from
Deuteronomy 18:15 where the Tetragrammaton appears in a papyrus fragment of the
Septuagint dated to the first century B.C. As a follower of Christ, Peter used God's name, Jehovah. When Peter's speech was put on record the Tetragrammaton was here used according to the practice during the first century B.C. and also A.D.
Some time during the SECOND OR THIRD CENTURY A.D. the scribes removed the Tetragrammaton from both the Septuagint and the Christian Greek Scriptures and replace it with Kyrios, 'Lord' or Theos, 'God'. (Appendix of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, p. 1564)
It stands to reason that Jesus would have used his Father's name AT LEAST when he quoted the Hebrew Scriptures. He certainly would not have succumbed to the silly superstition of the Jewish religious leaders to not use God's name because they didn't want to take it in vain! He knew that the Father wanted people to use his name (Exodus 3:15). When confronting the Devil in the 4th chapter of Luke, Jesus quoted from
Deuteronomy 6:13 & 16, where God's name is included. He quoted a lot from the O.T., undoubtedly using his Father's name where it existed in the Hebrew text.
He said, at John 17:6,26, that he had "made your [Jehovah's] name manifest," and he would continue to do so.
