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Ezekiel 3:7

The New Testament’s use of Ezekiel

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

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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.

Acts 19:8-10 ?

Paul preaches boldly in the synagogue until some are hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way; Ezekiel is told the house of Israel will not listen because they are hard of forehead and stubborn of heart. The hardened-hearer motif of the prophet's rejected word is strongly coherent (Volume: shared hardening/refusal language; Recurrence: Luke uses Israel-hardening as a structuring theme in Acts; Coherence: high).

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Acts 22:17-21

The Lord's warning 'they will not receive testimony concerning me from you' (v18) reproduces Ezekiel's sending to a people who 'will not be willing to listen to you' — the prophet rejected by his own. Thematic and near-verbal.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Ezekiel 3
Ezekiel 3:17-21 2Ezekiel 3:18 2