Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
⛓ Read Daniel 12 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Children of the resurrection... like the angels' draws on Daniel's resurrection hope, where the wise shine like the stars and the dead awake to everlasting life, a key Second-Temple text affirming bodily resurrection over against the Sadducees. Coherent and recurrent in resurrection discourse; moderate volume.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Daniel's promise that many who sleep in the dust will awake, and the wise will shine like the stars, is the clearest OT resurrection text and grounds the doctrine the Sadducees deny. Jesus' claim that the risen are 'like angels in heaven' coheres with Daniel's astral/angelic glorification of the righteous dead.
Medium confidence'Will inherit eternal life' echoes Daniel's resurrection to 'everlasting life,' the OT locus for that phrase informing the disciples' reward.
Medium confidenceThe shame of some and the vindication of the wise who shine at the end may inform having boldness and not being ashamed before him at his coming. The contrast of shame and confidence at the eschaton underlies the verse.
Low confidenceThe judgment-language of the parable's frame (joy of the lord vs. outer darkness) participates in the apocalyptic two-fold destiny of the wise who shine and others who go to shame, the eschatological backdrop Matthew assumes.
Low confidence