Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
⛓ 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.
Echo1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Passover-release custom set against the choice of the lamb-king to die deepens John's paschal irony, in which the unblemished lamb is rejected while a 'robber' is freed. Faint; the paschal framing is structural to the pericope but the connection to the lamb selection is conceptual.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Hays: high (figural) — the slain-yet-standing Lamb evokes the Passover lamb slaughtered by 'the whole assembly,' whose blood redeems (Exod 12:13). Combined with 5:9 ('bought us... with your blood, out of every... nation'), the new-exodus/Passover typology is unmistakable. The Lamb's death effects a redemption patterned on Passover deliverance from Egypt.
High confidence