“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The conflict turns on Jesus 'making mud' and healing on the Sabbath, engaging the Decalogue's Sabbath command and its later halakhic elaborations (kneading clay was forbidden work). The Sabbath statute is the legal axis of the Pharisees' charge that Jesus is 'not from God.'
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul reasons in the synagogue 'every Sabbath' (v.4); the rhythm of weekly Sabbath gathering presupposes the Decalogue's Sabbath command. Faint and institutional rather than verbal, but the Sabbath frame is the OT scaffolding for the scene.
Low confidence