The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
⛓ 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 kingdom... shall be given to the people of the saints' — the saints' reign/kingship undergirds 'they lived and reigned with Christ.' Coherent with the thrones-and-judgment cluster from Dan 7.
High confidenceThe kingdom and dominion given to the people of the saints of the Most High, an everlasting kingdom — reinforces the reign motif. Closely paired with 7:18.
High confidenceDominion is given to the saints, yet the kingdom's authority is from God, against which the Gentile kings who 'lord it over' their nations are contrasted. Jesus' antithesis between Gentile rulers' domination and servanthood draws on this kingdom-of-God-versus-beastly-empires schema. The contrast of empires coheres with Daniel 7.
Medium confidence'The kingdom and the dominion... shall be given to the people of the saints' extends the son-of-man grant to his people; the commission to disciple all nations enacts the spread of this everlasting dominion through the Son's authority.
Medium confidenceEcho5
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The kingdom given to the saints of the Most High, an everlasting dominion all peoples shall serve, supplies the otherworldly-sovereignty register behind Jesus' claim that his servants do not fight for an earthly realm. Recurrence within Daniel 7 reinforces the Son-of-Man kingdom background of the Pilate dialogue.
Medium confidenceThe kingdom given to the people of the saints of the Most High coheres faintly with 'it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom' for the 'little flock.' The granting of the kingdom to a faithful remnant is a coherent but light echo.
Low confidenceKingdom and dominion given to the people of the holy ones; reinforces the kingdom-inheritance frame.
Low confidence'The kingdom and the dominion... shall be given to the people of the holy ones.' The crowd's wonder that God 'had given such authority to men' may echo the Danielic transfer of dominion to a human collective, though the link is faint.
Low confidenceThe gathering of the chosen and the kingdom given to the saints (Dan 7:27) underlies the assembling of the elect at the Son of Man's coming.
Low confidence