He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.
⛓ Read Genesis 18 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.
Jesus eating broiled fish before them to prove corporeal reality parallels the angels who 'ate' before Abraham at Mamre, the locus classicus for heavenly visitors sharing human food. Luke uses the eating motif as physical proof against the disciples' supposition of a spirit. Recurrence of the 'divine visitor eats' type supports it.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The shared meal at which the divine guest is recognized recalls the LORD/angels eating with Abraham at Mamre, where hospitality discloses the visitor's identity. The Emmaus meal as the locus of revelation parallels the Mamre table-fellowship type. Structural and faint, so low and contested.
Low confidence