Edited sentence: (See Deaths of the Twelve Apostles.Because John lived so long and was the last of the apostles to die, there is some overlap between the Apostolic Age and the first Apostolic Fathers.Examples include Matthew 1:23, 2:15–18, 3:3, 21:42, Mark 1:2–3, 4:12, Luke 3:4–6, 22:37, John 2:17, 12:15, and notably Luke 4:18–21.Jesus read extensively from Book of Isaiah and said that the prophecy was fulfilled in the crowds who heard it.The Gospels, particularly the Gospel of Matthew, make extensive use of the Old Testament for the purpose of demonstrating that Jesus was the Messiah.The Pauline epistles also employ the principle of  prophecy fulfillment, as evidenced by 1 Corinthians 1:19 and Ephesians 4:8–10.The earliest Christian period of biblical interpretation was the Apostolic Age.The operative hermeneutical principle in the New Testament was prophecy fulfillment.Traditionally, that  was the period of the Twelve Apostles, dating from the Great Commission until the death of John the Apostle (about 100 A