“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. You shall labor six days, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed […]
⛓ 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.
Allusion5
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Sabbath controversy ('because he did these things on the Sabbath') invokes the Decalogue Sabbath command. Volume: foundational; the legal framework the Jews enforce is the fourth commandment. Coherence: high, the dispute is explicitly about Sabbath observance. Recurrence: the parallel Deut 5:12-15 reinforces availability. This is the law Jesus is accused of breaking, making it load-bearing for the whole chapter.
High confidenceThe whole controversy is over what is 'lawful to do on the Sabbath day,' which presupposes the Decalogue Sabbath command. Jesus' claim that the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath answers directly to this prohibition of work, a strong thematic echo.
High confidenceThe Sabbath controversy turns on the Decalogue command to keep the Sabbath holy, which the synagogue ruler invokes ('six days... ought to work'). High Volume and unmistakable Availability; the dispute is intelligible only against this commandment.
High confidenceThe Decalogue Sabbath command, with its creation rationale, is the law the Pharisees invoke against the disciples' grain-plucking (v.24). Jesus does not abolish but reinterprets it: "the Sabbath was made for man." High coherence; the dispute over what is "lawful on the Sabbath" presupposes this command.
High confidenceThe other Decalogue form of the Sabbath law stands directly behind the legal dispute over Sabbath healing. Availability and recurrence are strong; the verbal echo is to the command itself rather than to specific words of the verse.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
A second Sabbath controversy (healing the withered hand) again presupposes the Sabbath commandment; Jesus' question 'is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good?' directly engages the Decalogue prohibition of work. High Coherence with 6:1-5 and Recurrence within the chapter.
High confidenceThe Decalogue Sabbath command is the implicit law under dispute ('not lawful to do on the Sabbath'); the entire pericope is a halakhic argument over its proper scope.
High confidenceAgain the Sabbath command is the contested law; the healing is staged as a deliberate test case of what 'lawful to do on the Sabbath' includes.
Medium confidenceThe Decalogue Sabbath command is the legal ground the lawyers and Pharisees presuppose in watching whether Jesus will heal. Coherent with Luke's recurring Sabbath-controversy pattern but only ambiently present here.
Low confidence