A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh. His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears; but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for […]
⛓ Read Isaiah 11 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.
Hays: high — the second title in 5:5, 'the Root of David,' fuses Isaiah's 'shoot/branch from the stock of Jesse' (11:1) and 'the root of Jesse' to whom 'the nations will seek' (11:10). John transposes 'root of Jesse' to 'Root of David' (cf. Revelation 22:16), keeping the Davidic-messianic 'rizah Iessai' of LXX Isaiah 11:10, which Paul also cites (Romans 15:12). Pairing Lion-of-Judah with Root-of-David binds Genesis 49 and Isaiah 11 into one messianic identity.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Davidic shoot bringing the nations to obedience; 'obedience of faith among all the nations' coheres with the root-of-Jesse hope (cf. Rom 15:12 quoting Isa 11:10). Anticipatory, faint here.
Low confidence