Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
⛓ Read Hosea 9 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Ephraim is struck down... they shall bear no fruit' supplies the barrenness-and-judgment outcome that the parable holds in suspense. Coherent with the prophetic fig-tree complex; medium Volume.
Medium confidenceThe fig tree 'withered away from the roots' closely matches Hosea's judgment, 'Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit,' completing the barren-Israel sign begun in 11:14. The root-withering verbal contact strengthens the figural reading of the temple's coming judgment with strong coherence.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Ephraim 'blighted, their root dried up, they shall bear no fruit' — fruitlessness as ground for being cut off.
Low confidence