Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household; and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one […]
⛓ Read Exodus 12 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
John dates the cleansing to 'the Passover of the Jews' (2:13), invoking the Exodus Passover institution that frames Jesus' whole Jerusalem ministry and ultimately his death as the true paschal lamb (cf. 19:36). Volume is moderate (explicit feast reference) and Coherence high within John's paschal Christology.
Medium confidence◇ Figural2
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
John frames the entire farewell on the eve of 'the feast of the Passover,' deliberately situating Jesus' self-giving against the exodus deliverance. Volume and coherence are high in John, which has already cast Jesus as the lamb (1:29) and dates the crucifixion to Passover. The footwashing supper thus becomes the new Passover meal of departure.
High confidenceJohn's editorial note 'Now the Passover was at hand' (v.4) frames the whole chapter under the paschal lamb, preparing the flesh-and-blood discourse (vv.51-56). Availability and Coherence are strong; the Passover anchor is authorial, though the feeding scene itself does not verbally cite Exodus 12.
Medium confidence