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Genesis 26:12

The New Testament’s use of Genesis

4 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

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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.

Echo4

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

Luke 8:4-8 ?

Isaac sowing and reaping a hundredfold in one year ('a hundred times', meah shearim) supplies the exact extraordinary yield figure of 8:8. The shared numeric idiom of blessed harvest gives some Volume, but the allusion is faint and contested.

Low confidence
Mark 4:1-9 ?

Isaac's hundredfold harvest as a sign of divine blessing offers a scriptural precedent for the climactic 'one hundred times' yield in 4:8. The hundredfold motif is distinctive enough to register, though Mark gives no other Isaac signals, keeping recurrence and volume low.

Low confidence
Mark 10:23-31 ?

Isaac sows and reaps 'a hundredfold' because the LORD blessed him, a concrete OT instance of the hundredfold blessing language Jesus uses. It supplies Availability for 'one hundred times more.' Contested and low: a single lexical resonance.

Low confidence
Matt 13:1-9 ?

Isaac sows and reaps a hundredfold (LXX 'hekatosteuousan') in the same year — the only clear OT 'hundredfold' agricultural blessing, possible backdrop for the good soil's hundredfold yield (v.8).

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Genesis 26
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