Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.” So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.” As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, “Please bring me a morsel of […]
⛓ 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.
Jesus' withdrawal to the region of Tyre and Sidon and his healing of a Gentile woman's child recalls Elijah's sojourn with the Sidonian widow of Zarephath, whose son he restored, the paradigm of an Israelite prophet bringing life to a Gentile woman of that very coastland. Geographic and typological coherence is strong; the Sidonian-widow precedent frames the boundary-crossing mercy.
Medium confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Elijah sent to the Gentile widow of Zarephath, in the region of Sidon, whose son he heals — a typological precedent for Jesus in 'the region of Tyre and Sidon' (15:21) granting mercy and healing to a Gentile woman's child.
Medium confidence