For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I […]
⛓ Read Ezekiel 34 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
God declares 'I myself will search for my sheep... I will seek the lost,' the precise plot of the one shepherd who leaves the flock to find the strayed (vv. 4,6,16). Volume is high (sustained seeking-shepherd oracle), recurrence strong (Ezekiel 34 is a touchstone for Luke's shepherd Christology), and coherence exact: God's own searching contrasts the failed shepherds, just as Jesus seeks sinners the Pharisees abandon.
High confidenceThe shepherd who leaves the flock to 'seek that which has gone astray' and rejoices to find it directly enacts God's oracle: 'I myself will search for my sheep... I will seek the lost, and bring back the strayed.' High volume and thematic coherence.
High confidence"returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls" (2:25) draws on the divine-shepherd oracle of Ezekiel 34, where God himself seeks and gathers the scattered sheep; the straying-sheep/returning-to-shepherd movement of Isa 53:6 is completed with Ezekiel's restoring shepherd imagery.
Medium confidence◇ Figural2
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The LORD himself seeks, gathers, and feeds the scattered sheep, rescuing them from where they were scattered in the day of clouds. Jesus as the good shepherd who knows his own enacts the LORD's own pastoral self-commitment, making the divine claim of Ezekiel 34 the load-bearing subtext.
High confidence'My sheep hear my voice... and they follow me' (v.27) restates the LORD's own knowing and gathering of his flock from Ezekiel 34, now claimed by Jesus. The sustained shepherd theme links the Dedication confrontation back to the discourse's governing subtext.
High confidence