You haven’t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.
⛓ 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.
'The rulers of the nations lord it over them... it shall not be so among you' (20:25-26) inverts the false shepherds of Israel who 'with force and harshness ruled them'; Jesus contrasts domineering rule with self-giving service in the shepherd-leadership idiom of Ezek 34.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The indictment of shepherds who did not heal the sick or seek the lost frames Jesus' physician aphorism (v.17) as a contrast to negligent leaders. The verbal contact is the sick/strayed sheep imagery rather than quotation, so an echo. It coheres with Mark's critique of the scribes and Pharisees.
Low confidence