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Deuteronomy 13:1

The New Testament’s use of Deuteronomy

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises in your midst you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Rev 13:11-15

The earth-beast as false prophet working signs to lead worship astray is the Deuteronomic test of the false prophet: 'if a prophet... gives you a sign or wonder, and the sign comes to pass, and he says Let us go after other gods... you shall not listen' (Deut 13:1-5). Signs that succeed yet deceive is the precise Deuteronomic danger.

High confidence
Matt 24:23-28

'false christs and false prophets will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray' draws on Deuteronomy 13:1-3, the warning about a prophet who gives a sign or wonder to lead Israel astray after other gods; the criterion is fidelity, not the marvel.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Matt 5:17-20 ?

Warning against adding to or diminishing God's commands; background to the permanence of every least commandment.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Deuteronomy 13
Deuteronomy 13:1-5 8Deuteronomy 13:1-3 5Deuteronomy 13:5 4