but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:
⛓ Read Daniel 2 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.
Allusion8
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The cluster 'mystery... made known by revelation' that 'in other generations was not made known... as it has now been revealed' draws directly on Daniel's apocalyptic vocabulary, where 'there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries' and 'makes known' what was hidden. Volume is high (the rare nexus of mysterion + revelation + eschatological 'now') and the conceptual coherence is exact; Daniel is the seedbed of Pauline 'mystery' language. Availability and recurrence in Second-Temple apocalyptic both support it.
High confidence'There is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known... what will be in the latter days / what must happen.' Source for the apocalyptic formula 'the things which must happen soon' (with Dan 2:29, 2:45). Rev 1:1 and 22:6 frame the book by this Danielic idiom.
High confidence'There is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries' is arguably the direct conceptual source for Paul's claim that God's once-hidden wisdom is now revealed (vv.7,10). The technical use of mysterion for an eschatological secret disclosed by God is distinctively Danielic, lending high coherence even without verbatim quotation.
Medium confidence'Know all mysteries and all knowledge' draws on Daniel's 'God in heaven who reveals mysteries,' the Aramaic raze that becomes the technical term for apocalyptic secrets. Paul's pairing of mysteries with prophetic gift coheres with Daniel's revealer-of-secrets, the principal OT source for the mystery-vocabulary.
Medium confidence'The mystery (mysterion) which has been hidden for ages... but now has been revealed' (v.26) draws on Daniel's God 'who reveals mysteries' and 'made known what will be in the latter days.' The technical hidden-then-revealed mystery apocalyptic vocabulary derives from Daniel 2 (cf. 2:19,28,47).
Medium confidenceThe disclosure of 'the mystery of the Kingdom of God' in 4:11 echoes Daniel's revealed 'mystery' (raz) of the coming kingdom that God makes known to the elect while it stays hidden from outsiders. The apocalyptic mystery-revelation vocabulary is distinctive and coherent with Mark's insider/outsider divide, giving solid thematic and verbal warrant.
Medium confidence'These things must happen' (Greek dei genesthai) verbally echoes Daniel 2:28 LXX, 'what must come to pass in the latter days,' the programmatic statement of apocalyptic necessity. Mark adopts Daniel's deterministic 'must' to frame the wars and disasters as the divinely fixed sequence before the end.
Medium confidence'all this must happen' (Greek dei genesthai) echoes Daniel's 'what must take place' / 'what will be in the latter days,' the apocalyptic language of divinely fixed events; the necessity (dei) is Danielic determinism.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The prayer for an open door 'to speak the mystery (mystērion) of Christ' picks up the apocalyptic vocabulary of Daniel 2, where 'there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries' and discloses hidden things. Daniel LXX is the principal Second-Temple source for mystērion as divine secret now unveiled, coherent with Paul's 'mystery' language throughout Colossians. Conceptual rather than quotational.
Low confidence