David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
⛓ Read 2 Samuel 15 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.
Jesus going out to the Mount of Olives in the night of betrayal evokes David ascending the Mount of Olives weeping as he flees Absalom's conspiracy, with Ahithophel's treachery in view. The geographical and situational parallel (the anointed crossing Olivet amid betrayal) supports a faint Davidic typology.
Low confidencegoing out to the Mount of Olives (v30) faintly recalls David ascending Olivet weeping as he flees betrayal by Ahithophel, a betrayer-companion type.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
David ascends the Mount of Olives weeping, head covered, abandoned by intimates, the very topography to which Jesus 'often met' (Gethsemane lies on Olivet's slope). The shared geography plus the betrayed-king-in-anguish motif coheres with the Kidron crossing of v.1, strengthening the Davidic typology though John omits the agony itself.
Medium confidence