But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.” You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?” When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 18 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The law on the presumptuous prophet who speaks in the LORD's name without commission supplements the false-prophet warning. Less verbally specific than Deuteronomy 13, included for the recurrent false-prophet legislation behind Mark's 'false christs and false prophets.'
Low confidenceThe criterion for distinguishing the prophet who speaks presumptuously — judging the prophet by outcome/fruit.
Low confidence