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Genesis 2:1-2

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

John 19:28-30 ?

'It is finished' (tetelestai) echoes the completion of creation, 'the heavens and the earth were finished... God finished his work,' presenting the cross as the consummation of God's work. Coherent with John's new-creation framing (cf. 20:22); medium volume.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

John 17:1-5 ?

'I have accomplished the work which you gave me to do' (v4) faintly mirrors God finishing the work of creation and resting. Possible figural completion-of-work motif, but the language is generic; marked contested for low Volume.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Genesis 2
Genesis 2:2-3 6Genesis 2:2 2Genesis 2:7 21Genesis 2:8 3Genesis 2:8-15 2Genesis 2:9 3Genesis 2:17 6Genesis 2:18-23 2Genesis 2:18 2Genesis 2:24 10