The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 18 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.
Ezekiel's countervailing principle that 'the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father' frames the very debate the disciples raise. Jesus' answer ('neither did this man sin, nor his parents') aligns with Ezekiel's repudiation of inherited guilt, making this a coherent and available Second-Temple intertext.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Individual accountability — each judged for his own conduct, 'the soul who sins shall die' — undergirds the 'render to everyone according to his deeds' principle. Faint, conceptual.
Low confidence