Secondly, if the dominant idea of the New Testament could be put in to one word, it would be the word ‘fulfillment’. Each Gospel account illustrates this characteristic concept. For example, Matthew has the phrase, “That it might be fulfilled.” He repeats that word about twelve times in his gospel. Additionally, his first recorded public discourse of our Lord, Matthew reports, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil" (Mt 5:17, KJV) . Or in an earlier verse: “And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him” (Mt 3:15). Matthew uses that word ‘fulfillment’ quite frequently from the Greek πληρόω (plēroō) meaning “to fill; make full.”1