Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
⛓ 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.
Paul says the man was 'caught up into Paradise' (paradeisos), the LXX word for the garden 'God planted in Eden.' The localization of Paradise in the highest heaven is a Second-Temple development from the Eden narrative; volume is moderate because the loaded term Paradise is a direct lexical link to the Genesis garden as rendered by the LXX.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Burial in a garden may echo Eden, supporting John's new-creation/new-Adam reading of the resurrection that follows. Faint and contested; thematic link to the garden setting.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The arrest in a 'garden' (kepos), a setting unique to John among the passion accounts and reprised at the tomb (19:41; 20:15), evokes Eden as the place where humanity's fall began and where the new Adam now reverses it through obedience. The Coherence with John's new-creation theology (cf. 20:22) gives the figural reading weight despite no verbal quotation.
Medium confidence