Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, “Why do we sit here until we die?
⛓ Read 2 Kings 7 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The lepers outside Samaria's gate exemplify the social exclusion of the leper that frames Luke's scene. Faint, contextual only.
Low confidenceThe four lepers at the gate of Samaria who 'stood at the entrance' likewise embody the marginalized-leper-at-a-distance topos and the Samaria setting. Geographic and situational resonance, but no verbal dependence, so low.
Low confidence