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Isaiah 25:6

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

8 places · 3 kinds of echo

The source

In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

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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.

Allusion4

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Luke 14:15-24

The exclamation 'Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!' and the parable of the great supper draw directly on Isaiah's eschatological banquet on Mount Zion — 'a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees' for all peoples. High volume and coherence: the messianic banquet is the controlling image, and the eventual inclusion of outsiders mirrors Isaiah's 'all peoples.'

High confidence
Rev 19:6-10

The eschatological feast on Zion: 'the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food' - the OT matrix for 'the marriage supper of the Lamb' (Rev 19:9), the messianic banquet. Thematic source par excellence.

High confidence
Luke 13:22-30

Reclining at table 'in the Kingdom of God' with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob evokes Isaiah's eschatological feast 'for all peoples' on the mountain. Medium Volume; the banquet image grounds the seating/dining language and the Gentile inclusion.

Medium confidence
Matt 22:1-14

The eschatological banquet — the LORD makes 'a feast of fat things' (fatlings/oxen killed, 22:4) for all peoples on his mountain. The king's marriage feast for his son draws on this prophetic image of the messianic/end-time banquet; the killing of fatlings matches Isaiah's 'fat things full of marrow.'

Medium confidence

Echo3

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

Matt 26:26-30

'until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's Kingdom' (v29) anticipates the eschatological 'feast of wines on the lees' on the LORD's mountain.

Medium confidence
Luke 22:24-30 ?

Eating and drinking 'at my table in my Kingdom' resonates with Isaiah's eschatological feast on the mountain for all peoples. The messianic-banquet image is available and coherent, though the lexical link is loose.

Low confidence
Mark 14:22-25 ?

Jesus' vow to drink the fruit of the vine 'anew in the Kingdom of God' evokes the eschatological banquet on Zion where the Lord makes 'a feast of well-aged wines' for all peoples. The messianic-feast horizon coheres with Mark's kingdom-cup, supplying the festal-wine background for the eschatological pledge.

Low confidence

Figural1

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

John 2:1-11

Isaiah's eschatological banquet on Zion of rich food and well-aged wines for all peoples is the messianic-feast type that Cana's wedding banquet enacts. Volume is moderate (banquet + choice wine); Coherence is strong since the ruler praises the 'good wine kept until now,' echoing the aged-wine motif. The wedding setting reinforces the feast typology.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 25
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