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. God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
⛓ Read Genesis 2 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 Sabbath was made for man" (v.27) appeals to the creation ordinance where God rests and hallows the seventh day for humanity's sake. Distinctive theology: Sabbath is grounded in creation, not merely Sinai, which supports Jesus' claim that it serves man. Strong thematic coherence with the original institution of rest.
High confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Sabbath's creational institution: God rests and hallows the seventh day. Jesus' lordship over the Sabbath claim resonates against the divine origin and purpose of the day.
Medium confidenceGod's own Sabbath rest at creation is the root of Sabbath theology behind the pericope and the 'lord of the Sabbath' claim. The connection is theological rather than verbal, so confidence is low and the link is figural-conceptual.
Low confidenceThe Sabbath rest after the finished work of the cross resonates figurally with God resting on the seventh day after creation — the new creation's Sabbath repose before resurrection. A theological-figural reading; Luke signals only the commandment, so it is offered low.
Low confidenceGod's rest from his works on the seventh day — faint Sabbath-rest backdrop for 'rest from their labors.' Conceptual only.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
'My Father is still working, so I am working, too' answers the Sabbath charge by appeal to creation: God rested on the seventh day, yet (so the live Second-Temple debate, e.g. Philo, Leg. All. 1.5-6; later rabbinic discussion) God never ceases the works of giving life and rendering judgment, which alone are his prerogative even on the Sabbath. Volume: the rest of Gen 2:2-3 is exactly the premise Jesus' claim contests. Coherence: very high — it generates the equal-with-God charge in v.18 and the life/judgment exposition that follows. Recurrence: the creation Sabbath underlies the whole Bethesda-on-the-Sabbath structure. Availability: the 'God works even on the Sabbath' tradition is attested in Second-Temple/early-rabbinic sources.
High confidence