He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm. Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
⛓ Read 2 Kings 4 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Elisha's bodily, hands-on revival ('he put his mouth on his mouth... the flesh of the child grew warm') resonates with Jesus 'taking the child by the hand' (v.41). The motif of resurrection effected by the prophet's physical contact strengthens the Elisha typology beyond the structural parallels already noted in 4:32-37.
Medium confidenceJesus restoring the convulsed only son and 'giving him back to his father' faintly recalls Elisha raising the Shunammite's son and giving him back. The 'gave him back' gesture (cf. also 1 Kings 17:23) is the load-bearing link; low volume, contested.
Low confidence