“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you. You shall labor six days, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as […]
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 5 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Deuteronomy's Sabbath form explicitly rests the ox and donkey and frames the day as liberation from bondage, the very logic Jesus deploys ('free his ox or donkey... ought not this woman... be freed'). Strong Coherence: Jesus reads the Sabbath as release, matching Deuteronomy's exodus rationale.
High confidenceThe Deuteronomic Sabbath command, with its humanitarian rationale (so servants may rest), reinforces Jesus' principle that the Sabbath exists for human benefit. The man-centered framing in v.27 coheres especially with Deuteronomy's emphasis on rest for people. Allusion via the Sabbath legislation cited in the dispute.
Medium confidenceThe Sabbath conflict presupposes the Decalogue Sabbath command, which in Deuteronomy's form roots the day in liberation and mercy ('that your servant may rest'). Jesus' 'is it lawful to do good?' reframes the commandment toward the merciful, life-giving intent the text already carries. High thematic coherence with the Deuteronomic humanitarian rationale.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Deuteronomic restatement of the Sabbath command frames it humanely (rest, mercy, deliverance), coherent with Jesus' merciful reading of Sabbath law over the plucking of grain. Lower volume than Exodus 20 since Luke does not quote, but the humanitarian rationale is apt.
Medium confidenceThe second Decalogue's Sabbath command, grounding the rest in liberation; relevant background to the dispute over what the Sabbath is for and whom it serves.
Medium confidence