Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God:” and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
⛓ Read Exodus 8 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"If I by the finger of God cast out demons" directly invokes the Egyptian magicians' confession, "This is the finger of God," before Pharaoh. The phrase ties Jesus' exorcisms to the Exodus power that defeats hostile powers and inaugurates God's reign; high volume and exact verbal correspondence.
High confidence'This is the finger of God' — Pharaoh's magicians concede the plagues' divine origin. Luke's parallel reads 'finger of God'; Matthew's 'Spirit of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come' carries the same Exodus echo: God's power directly at work signals the kingdom's arrival.
Medium confidence