This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.
⛓ 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Gird up the loins of your mind' literalizes the Passover posture—'your loins girded, your sandals on, in haste'—readiness for imminent deliverance, fitting the redemption-by-the-lamb imagery of 1:18-19. High volume on the distinctive idiom plus contextual Passover coherence.
High confidenceThe angel's commands — 'Get dressed and put on your sandals... Put on your cloak' — closely mirror the Passover instruction to eat 'with your waist girded, your sandals on your feet,' ready to depart in haste. Given the explicit Passover setting (12:3-4), the verbal volume and thematic coherence make this the keystone allusion: Peter's release is a re-enacted exodus.
High confidenceThe Passover command to eat 'with your waist girded, your sandals on your feet... in haste' supplies 'let your waist be dressed,' the posture of readiness for the Lord's deliverance/coming. The girded-loins idiom for eschatological vigilance is a strong, apt allusion.
High confidenceIsrael eats the Passover with staff in hand, sandals on feet, dressed for urgent departure. The Twelve are likewise equipped with a staff and sandals only, traveling light and ready, evoking the Exodus-haste posture. The shared cluster of staff + sandals supports the allusion despite the differing inventory of permitted items.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Passover departure 'with your staff in your hand' and sandals on, ready to travel light, sits in ironic counterpoint to the mission's stripping away of staff, sandals (in the Markan form), and provisions. A possible inversion of the exodus travel kit, but the parallel is contested and the Matthean list differs.
Low confidence