But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.
⛓ Read Daniel 7 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The saints of the Most High receive and possess the kingdom; ground of 'they will reign forever and ever.' Coherence with Rev 5:10, 20:4. Aramaic/OG both attest eternal reign of the holy ones.
High confidenceBeing 'counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer' draws on Daniel's promise that the holy ones of the Most High shall receive and possess the kingdom after the beast's oppression. The pairing of present affliction with future royal vindication is distinctively Danielic. Cf. Daniel 7:22, 27.
Medium confidence'You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel' echoes 'the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom' and possess it forever. The reign-of-the-saints motif undergirds the apostles' eschatological enthronement, a recurring Danielic theme in Luke 22.
Medium confidenceThe saints of the Most High receive and possess the kingdom; underwrites 'theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven' (bracketing beatitudes 1 and 8).
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever' — the everlasting reign of the saints parallels reigning with Christ; part of the Dan 7 throne complex.
Medium confidenceGod 'calls you into his own kingdom and glory' (v. 12) draws on the OT hope that the saints receive the kingdom; Daniel 7:18 ('the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom') is the seedbed of that eschatological kingdom-and-glory language. Faint and contested as a specific source.
Low confidence'All these things' coming to pass before 'this generation' passes resonates with Daniel's assurance that 'the saints shall receive the kingdom... forever, forever and ever'; the certainty that the decreed events will be accomplished is Danielic. Faint, included for the apocalyptic guarantee that frames 'most certainly I say.'
Low confidence