Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
⛓ Read Exodus 4 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.
YHWH to Moses: 'Who makes a man dumb or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?' This grounds blindness in God's sovereign purpose, exactly Jesus' reframing ('that the works of God might be revealed'). Coherence is high since the giver of sight here becomes incarnate as the light-bringer.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Who makes a man mute, or deaf... Is it not I, the LORD?' grounds the claim that making the deaf hear and the mute speak is a divine prerogative. The crowd's wonder implicitly attributes to Jesus a work Yahweh claims as his own. Thematic coherence high; specific verbal volume moderate.
Medium confidence'Who makes him mute... Is it not I, the LORD?' God's claim to sovereignty over speech and its impairment frames Jesus' loosing of the mute tongue as a divine prerogative exercised.
Medium confidence'Who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?' — the divine prerogative over these very disabilities, now exercised by Jesus, prompting glory to 'the God of Israel'.
Low confidence