Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 6 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Jesus names the greatest commandment by quoting the Shema in full: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.' This is a formal, explicit citation of Israel's central confession, the pericope's anchor text.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Jesus' 'No one is good except God alone' echoes the Shema's confession of the one God as the sole locus of goodness and uniqueness. The monotheistic premise reframes the ruler's 'Good Teacher.' Medium volume; theological rather than verbal-exact.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Shema's command to love/serve God with whole heart frames the cluster of Deut 6 citations; exclusive devotion to the one LORD is the theological center of Jesus' resistance.
Medium confidence'You don't have God's love in yourselves' and 'how can you believe, who... don't seek the glory from the only God' resonate with the Shema's call to love the one God with whole heart. Volume low (no quotation), but Coherence moderate: the indictment is that those who recite love of the one God fail to love and honor him. Faint, contested, included for completeness.
Low confidence