Jesus' attitude to the Old Testament

Jesus was a Jew. His 'Bible' was our Old Testament. The Old Testament pointed forward to Jesus, and he fulfilled it. So how did Jesus himself see the Old Testament? Did he see it like this? Or is this just something that we are 'reading back' into the documents because we would like it to be true?

Jesus told the Jewish religious leaders who opposed him:

After Jesus was raised from the dead, when he was teaching some of his followers on the the way to the village of Emmaus, the Bible says that he

Later he told his followers:

So Jesus really did understand the Old Testament to be about him - to point forward to him, and be fulfilled by him. This is also how his first followers, and the writers of the New Testament, understood the Old Testament:

• Passages in John's Gospel about the Old Testament scriptures pointing to Christ.
• How the author of the New Testament book of Hebrews understood the Old Testament to point forward to Christ.

For more about how the whole Bible points to Jesus - Old Testament as well as New Testament - read Vaughan Roberts' excellent book 'God's Big Picture: tracing the story-line of the Bible', or Graeme Goldsworthy's 'According to Plan: the unfolding revelation of God in the Bible', or Alec Motyer's 'Look to the Rock: An Old Testament Background to our understanding of Christ.'