His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
⛓ Read Genesis 37 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.
'The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph' echoes 'his brethren envied him,' the seed of the betrayal — and a deliberate prototype of the present rejection of Jesus.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart' resembles Jacob who 'kept the saying in mind' after Joseph's dreams (LXX: dieterei to rhema). The verbal pattern (keeping/treasuring a rhema) is close and recurs at 2:51, giving recurrence, though the motif is also a general wisdom convention, so the specific source is contested.
Low confidence'Because of envy they had delivered him up' — Joseph's brothers handed him over out of jealousy/envy; the envy-driven handing-over of the favored one is a recurring betrayal motif (cf. Acts 7:9).
Low confidence