They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
⛓ Read Genesis 22 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.
Echo1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Jesus is 'bound' (edesan) and led to the priests, faintly echoing the binding (aqedah) of Isaac, the beloved son bound for sacrifice. Low and contested: John supplies no verbal Isaac marker, so the link rests on the bound-sacrificial-son typology that informs Johannine atonement theology elsewhere.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
‘Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac’ (v. 17) retells the Aqedah (Gen 22, here v. 9, the binding). The narrative is reused whole and read past itself — the near-sacrifice becomes a figure of resurrection: ‘figuratively speaking, he received him back from the dead.’
High confidence