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1 Maccabees 2:28

The New Testament’s use of 1 Maccabees

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

And he and his sons fled into the mountains, and forsook all that they had in the city.

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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.

Mark 13:14-20

'Mattathias and his sons fled to the mountains' at the persecution provides the precise precedent for 'let those in Judea flee to the mountains.' The Maccabean flight from the desolating sacrilege is the paradigmatic response Mark commands, making this a strong situational echo within the same desolation script.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 24:15-22 ?

Mattathias and his sons 'fled to the mountains' to escape the persecution and desecration, a Maccabean precedent for fleeing to the hills when the abomination stands in the holy place.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in 1 Maccabees 2
1 Maccabees 2:26 21 Maccabees 2:52 2