I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"I will set up over them one shepherd... my servant David, and he shall feed them and be their shepherd" — the messianic Davidic-shepherd promise underlying "the Lamb... shepherds them." Striking oxymoron (the Lamb is the Shepherd) fuses Ezekiel 34's shepherd-king with John's Lamb-Christology. Strong coherence; Ezek 34:23 cited as the principal verse of the chapter-long shepherd oracle.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The promise of one Davidic shepherd who feeds the scattered flock undergirds the feeding as messianic shepherding. Faint in Luke's spare account; figural and contested.
Low confidence◇ Figural2
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
God promises to set up 'one shepherd' to feed and tend the flock. Jesus' triple charge to Peter—'feed my lambs / tend my sheep / feed my sheep'—delegates this messianic shepherd office. High volume of shepherd language, strong coherence with Johannine 'good shepherd' (ch.10), and clear availability in Ezekiel 34's feed/tend vocabulary.
High confidence'I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David.' The promise of a single Davidic shepherd is figurally fulfilled as Jesus (the Son of David of 9:27) responds to the shepherdless crowds, binding this pericope to the Davidic christology of the chapter.
Medium confidence