← INDEX FONTIUM

Isaiah 12:3

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

3 places · 3 kinds of echo

The source

Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

⛓ Read Isaiah 12 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.

John 7:37-39

'With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation' was the text sung at the Tabernacles water-libation (the Hallel/water-drawing rite). The festal water-drawing ceremony is precisely the backdrop of Jesus' invitation 'if anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink' (v.37). Coherence with the liturgical setting is high; verbal contact moderate.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

1 Thess 1:6-7 ?

'Received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit' resonates with the prophetic motif of drawing joy from God amid distress (e.g., joy from the wells of salvation). The eschatological-Spirit joy-in-affliction pattern is broadly Septuagintal; volume is low, so this is a faint coherence echo.

Low confidence

Figural1

A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.

John 4:7-15

'With joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation' joins drawing water (the woman's task) to salvation (v22 'salvation is from the Jews'). Coherence is good; the drawing-water verb links the literal and figural planes.

Medium confidence