Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, […]
⛓ 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.
Jesus' refrain 'unless you repent, you will all perish' restates Ezekiel's prophetic logic that each person bears responsibility and must 'turn and live' lest he die. High Volume in the shared death/repentance vocabulary; strong Coherence with Luke's repentance theme; the prophet is widely available.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Repent and turn... why will you die?' — the prophetic summons to repentance underlies Jesus' inaugural proclamation. Generic, contested.
Low confidence