It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
⛓ 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.
Isaiah's promise that the LORD will 'assemble the banished of Israel and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth' supplies the messianic-age ingathering behind Mark's gathering of the elect. The 'four corners/four winds' regathering is a recurrent restoration motif, here applied to the Son of Man's harvest.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Isaiah's eschatological ingathering of the dispersed of Israel/Judah from Egypt, Cush, Elam, Shinar, and the coastlands anticipates the gathering of diaspora Jews 'from every nation' to Jerusalem. The geographic spread of the returnees parallels the list of nations here. Low volume, plausible thematic coherence with a restoration-of-the-dispersed reading; contested.
Low confidenceThe gathering of the scattered/lost of Israel as a restoration motif faintly underlies 'came to seek and to save that which was lost.' The remnant-gathering theme coheres with Luke's salvation-to-this-house, but the verbal contact is slight. Low confidence; Ezekiel 34 is the stronger source.
Low confidence