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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Elijah raises the widow's son, who is laid in the upper room (loft) where the prophet prays; the result is faith ('now I know'). Tabitha is laid in an upper room, surrounded by widows, raised through Peter's prayer, and 'many believed.' Strong coherence: upper room + widow context + prayer + resurrection + resulting belief.
High confidenceThe raising of the widow of Nain's son is closely modeled on Elijah's raising of the widow of Zarephath's only son. Luke 7:15, 'he gave him to his mother,' reproduces 1 Kings 17:23 LXX nearly verbatim, and the shared motifs (a widow, a dead only son, a city gate, the crowd's recognition of a great prophet) give high volume and coherence. Zarephath lies near Nain's geography of Galilee/Sidon, and the Elijah-typology pervades Luke 7.
High confidenceElijah's raising of the widow of Zarephath's son is the prototype Luke evokes: a prophet restores a dead child, here a 'spirit returned' (8:55) echoing the LXX's restoration of the boy's breath. The Elijah/Elisha raising type is programmatic for Luke's Christology.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Elijah raising the widow's son and restoring household life offers faint figural backdrop for healing in a home and the woman rising to serve; thematic, contested.
Low confidence◇ Figural4
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The raising of Eutychus is a deliberate Elijah typology: a man of God descends to a dead youth, throws himself upon the body, and the boy's life returns. Elijah 'stretched himself upon the child' (LXX) and the child's life came back to him; Paul 'fell upon him, embracing him' and declares 'his life is in him.' Volume is high (the bodily prostration on the corpse), recurrence strong (Luke pairs his apostles with Elijah/Elisha resurrections elsewhere), thematic coherence excellent.
High confidenceElijah revives the widow's dying son and the mother's faith follows; Jesus' word 'your son lives' (v50-53) reprises the prophet who restores a son at the point of death. High Coherence and a strong type for the life-giving prophetic word; the 'son lives' acclamation closely matches.
High confidenceElijah raising the widow of Zarephath's son is the foundational prophet-raises-the-dead type that Jesus surpasses; cf. the 'four days' to magnify the miracle. Strong recurrence (paired with Elisha) and coherence: a prophet's word/prayer restores a dead son to life. Availability secure.
High confidenceElijah raises the widow's dead son. The prophetic raising of a dead child is the primary type for Jesus entering, taking the girl by the hand, and raising her; Matthew presents Jesus as greater than Elijah.
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