Then they hurried, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, “Jehu is king.”
⛓ Read 2 Kings 9 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Spreading garments before the rider evokes the acclamation of Jehu, where the people put their cloaks under him on the steps and proclaimed 'Jehu is king.' The garment-strewing as royal enthronement gesture closely parallels the crowd's act here. Medium volume; the cloak ritual is a recognizable kingship sign.
Medium confidenceSpreading garments on the road as Jesus rides echoes the acclamation of Jehu, where the people 'took every man his garment, and put it under him... and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.' The shared royal-enthronement gesture of garments under the new king gives coherence to reading the entry as a kingmaking, though Mark adds the cut branches.
Medium confidenceSpreading garments on the road as an act of royal acclamation: at Jehu's anointing the men 'took every man his garment, and put it under him... and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.' The crowd's gesture (21:8) enacts an enthronement.
Medium confidence