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Daniel 12:12-13

The New Testament’s use of Daniel

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days. But go you your way until the end; for you shall rest, and shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days.

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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.

Matt 10:16-23 ?

'Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh... thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.' Daniel's eschatological endurance-to-the-end-and-be-vindicated theme underlies 10:22, 'he who endures to the end will be saved,' set amid tribulation.

Medium confidence

Echo2

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

Mark 13:9-13 ?

'He who endures to the end will be saved' resonates with Daniel's beatitude on the one who waits and reaches the end of the days ('blessed is he who waits... you shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days'). The endurance-to-the-end-yields-deliverance logic is Danielic apocalyptic, coherent with Mark's framework.

Medium confidence
Luke 21:12-19 ?

Daniel is told, 'blessed is he who waits' and to stand in his lot at the end of days, framing endurance as the path to eschatological reward. Jesus' 'by your endurance you will win your lives' resonates with this Danielic call to persevere to the resurrection-end. Thematic coherence with apocalyptic endurance.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Daniel 12
Daniel 12:1 20Daniel 12:1-2 2Daniel 12:2 36Daniel 12:2-3 5Daniel 12:3 9Daniel 12:4 5Daniel 12:7 7Daniel 12:9 2Daniel 12:10 4Daniel 12:11 3Daniel 12:12 2