for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
⛓ Read Genesis 3 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.
That Christ 'didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped' is widely read as an inverse of Adam and Eve's grasping to 'be like God' at the serpent's prompting. The Adam-Christ antithesis (humility undoing the primal grasp) gives high coherence with Pauline theology; the allusion is conceptual rather than verbal, hence medium confidence and a recognized scholarly debate.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
‘Senses exercised to discern good and evil’ (v. 14) reuses the Eden phrase ‘knowing good and evil’ (Gen 2–3). Probably an idiom of moral maturity rather than a pointed citation, but the verbal pair is verbatim with the Genesis tree; included as a faint, contested figural-tinged echo for maximal coverage.
Low confidence