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Genesis 22:2

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

14 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Col 1:9-14 ?

'The Son of his love' / the Beloved (v.13) carries the Aqedah resonance of Isaac, 'your son, your only son, whom you love,' a beloved-son figure offered up. Coherence with the redemption-through-death theme that immediately follows (v.14, v.20) strengthens the figural reading of the beloved son.

Medium confidence
Luke 3:21-22 ?

"Beloved Son" (ho agapetos) echoes the LXX of Genesis 22:2, where God names Isaac "your beloved son" before the Akedah, layering sacrificial-son overtones onto Jesus' designation. The distinctive agapetos vocabulary gives this real Volume beyond the Psalm 2 base.

Medium confidence

Echo12

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

2 Pet 1:16-18

'Your son, your only son… whom you love' supplies the 'beloved Son' resonance, with the Aqedah lurking behind the Father's word over Jesus.

Medium confidence
Eph 1:3-6 ?

'The Beloved' (en to egapemeno) evokes Isaac, 'your son, your only son, whom you love,' the beloved offered son — apt for a passage moving toward 'redemption through his blood.' Thematic coherence (beloved son, sacrifice) is good; the volume is moderate because 'Beloved' also draws on Psalm 2 and Isaiah 5 traditions.

Medium confidence
Luke 20:9-16 ?

'I will send my beloved son' (ton huion mou ton agapeton) verbally echoes the LXX of the Aqedah, where Isaac is the 'beloved son' whom the father gives up. Volume rests on the distinctive phrase agapetos huios, shared with Luke's baptism/transfiguration; coherent with Luke's Son Christology, though some read it merely as 'only/dear son.'

Medium confidence
Mark 1:9-11 ?

'Beloved Son' (agapētos) may invoke Isaac, 'your only/beloved son,' in the Aqedah of Genesis 22:2 LXX, foreshadowing the offered son. Volume is the single distinctive adjective agapētos (which LXX uses for Isaac), giving real verbal contact; recurrence at 9:7 and the passion's sacrificial logic raise coherence. Genuinely contested—agapētos may simply intensify 'Son.'

Medium confidence
Mark 9:2-8 ?

God's command to Abraham regarding 'your son, your only son, whom you love' supplies the Aqedah resonance behind 'my beloved Son.' The Greek agapetos echoes the Septuagint of Isaac, linking divine sonship to sacrificial offering, which coheres with Mark's passion theme. The connection is suggestive rather than verbally exact.

Medium confidence
Mark 12:1-12 ?

The owner's 'one beloved son' (huion agapeton) whom he sends last echoes the Aqedah language where God names Isaac 'your beloved son.' Mark has already used 'beloved Son' at the baptism and transfiguration, so recurrence within the Gospel raises the volume; the figural resonance of a beloved son sent to death sharpens the parable's pathos.

Medium confidence
John 3:31-36 ?

'The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand' (3:35) recapitulates the beloved-Son giving of 3:16 / the Aqedah; recurrence within the chapter, low independent volume.

Low confidence
John 21:15-17 ?

The thrice-repeated 'Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?' echoes the testing/love idiom of the Aqedah where God names the beloved son in a graduated demand. Faint structural resonance (threefold address, love, testing); offered as contested.

Low confidence
Luke 3:23-38 ?

Placed immediately after the baptismal "beloved Son," the genealogy's anchoring in Abraham reactivates the Abraham-Isaac promise line as the channel of blessing for all nations. Faint and structural; low.

Low confidence
Matt 3:13-17 ?

'My beloved Son' (Greek agapetos) recalls Isaac, 'your son, your only/beloved son whom you love,' bound near a mountain — a faint Aqedah resonance coloring Jesus as the beloved son offered. Verbal contact on agapetos; contested but recurrent in early-Christian typology.

Low confidence
Matt 12:15-21 ?

'My beloved' (agapetos) echoes the 'beloved son' Isaac language that LXX uses; faint resonance binding the Servant quotation to the beloved-son theme.

Low confidence
Matt 17:1-8 ?

'Your son, your only/beloved son.' The 'beloved Son' (agapetos, the LXX rendering of yahid in the Aqedah) may carry an Isaac-typology overtone of the beloved son led toward sacrifice, dovetailing with the passion predictions framing the chapter.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Genesis 22
Genesis 22:6 4Genesis 22:9 2Genesis 22:11 2Genesis 22:16-17 3Genesis 22:17 5Genesis 22:18 5