After these things, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him. She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!” He said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the room where he stayed, and laid him on his own bed. He cried to Yahweh, and said, […]
⛓ Read 1 Kings 17 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Elijah raises the widow of Zarephath's son: he goes in to where the child lies, acts privately, and 'the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived,' then Elijah presents the living child. Mark's raising of Jairus' daughter — entering where the child lay (v.40), the restoring word, the return to life (v.42) — is patterned on this paradigmatic prophetic resurrection. Strong Volume and recurrence within the chapter's Elijah-Elisha typology.
High confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Jesus taking the sick woman 'by the hand' and raising her up loosely follows the Elijah/Elisha healing pattern (Elijah revives the widow's son). Volume is purely formal (prophet restores a stricken person), with no verbal borrowing in Mark's terse account, so this is a contested figural echo riding on Mark's broader Elijah typology.
Low confidence