“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. “You shall not murder. “You shall not commit adultery. “You shall not steal. “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
⛓ Read Exodus 20 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.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Jesus recites the Decalogue's second table—do not commit adultery, murder, steal, bear false witness, honor father and mother—quoting the commandments nearly verbatim. This is an explicit citation of the Ten Commandments as the answer to inheriting eternal life. Highest volume; direct quotation.
High confidenceJesus recites the second-table Decalogue commandments against murder, adultery, theft, false witness, and to honor father and mother, citing them as 'the commandments' the man knows. The wording follows the Decalogue directly. Highest Volume and explicit appeal to the Ten Words.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The vice list of vv. 9-10 tracks the second table of the Decalogue in order: dishonoring parents, killing, sexual sin, stealing (men-stealing), false witness. Paul structures the catalogue of the lawless on the Ten Commandments. The Exodus Decalogue is the organizing template.
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