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Isaiah 2:2-3

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

5 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

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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.

Echo5

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

John 4:20-26

Nations stream to Zion, for 'out of Zion shall go forth the law' — backing 'salvation is from the Jews' (v22). Coherence good for the Jew-as-source-of-salvation claim; moderate Volume.

Medium confidence
Matt 5:13-16

The mountain of the LORD's house lifted up, with nations streaming to it; 'a city set on a hill cannot be hidden' evokes the eschatological Zion.

Medium confidence
Acts 28:29-31 ?

Paul's unhindered preaching of the Kingdom of God in the imperial capital, with all who come received, gives a faint figural fulfillment of the nations streaming to learn God's ways; the link is thematic, not verbal.

Low confidence
John 12:20-26 ?

The Greeks who 'went up to worship' and seek Jesus faintly enact the pilgrimage of the nations to Zion in the last days. Coherence with John's universalizing 'I will draw all people' (v.32) gives the motif some weight; low because no verbal contact.

Low confidence
Matt 28:16-20 ?

The nations streaming to the mountain of the LORD to be taught his ways resonates with the disciples gathered on a mountain and sent to teach all nations to observe Jesus' commands; faint Zion-mountain/pilgrimage-of-nations coloring.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 2
Isaiah 2:3 5Isaiah 2:5 4Isaiah 2:10 2Isaiah 2:11-17 2Isaiah 2:19 3