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Ezekiel 34:14-16

The New Testament’s use of Ezekiel

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh. I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which […]

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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.

Echo2

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

Matt 14:13-21 ?

God's promise to shepherd his scattered flock himself, feeding them in good pasture and seeking the lost and sick, resonates with Jesus healing the sick and feeding the crowd in the open country. The Davidic-shepherd hope of Ezekiel is being enacted.

Medium confidence
Matt 15:32-39 ?

God the shepherd will feed his flock in good pasture and seek the lost — recurrence with 15:24's lost sheep; the feeding enacts the shepherd's provision of food.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Ezekiel 34
Ezekiel 34:1-16 3Ezekiel 34:4 2Ezekiel 34:5 4Ezekiel 34:5-6 4Ezekiel 34:11-16 5Ezekiel 34:16 5Ezekiel 34:23 4Ezekiel 34:23-24 2