Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, “Behold, your son lives.”
⛓ 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The clause 'and he gave him to his mother' (kai edoken auton te metri autou) matches the LXX of 1 Kings 17:23 word-for-word, making this the strongest verbal anchor for the whole pericope. The near-citation in narrative voice signals deliberate Elijah modeling rather than coincidence.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Elijah 'gave him to his mother' after the raising; Jesus likewise restores the child to her parents and orders that she be given food (v.43), confirming bodily life. The return-to-the-parent motif and the demonstration of real restored life cohere closely with the Elijah pattern.
Medium confidenceElijah 'delivered him to his mother'—'see, your son lives'—parallels Jesus giving the healed only child back to his father. Coherent with Luke's Elijah typology (cf. the 'only son' at Nain, 7:12-15) but verbally faint here.
Low confidence