In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
⛓ Read Isaiah 29 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see' — a parallel Isaianic oracle reinforcing the deaf/blind reversal, part of a recurring Isaianic cluster.
High confidence'The eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and darkness' adds to the Isaianic cluster promising sight to the blind in the day of restoration, reinforced by Luke's pattern of citing such oracles. Medium volume; part of a recurring Isaianic chain.
Medium confidence'In that day...out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see'—paired in Isaiah with the deaf hearing, this restoration oracle undergirds the staged healing. The Isaianic blindness/sight complex is the controlling intertext for the whole pericope's placement.
Medium confidence'Out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.' A second Isaianic blindness-reversal oracle reinforcing that restored sight is the mark of God's eschatological visitation now effected by Jesus.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'In that day...the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity' supplies the eschatological frame as neighbors marvel that the beggar now sees. The pericope is largely narrative dialogue, so the echo is ambient rather than pointed, carried over from the healing itself.
Low confidenceThe opening of blind eyes and hearing of the deaf in Isaiah 29:18 belongs to the cluster of Isaianic restoration texts Luke draws on for sight-to-the-blind. Faint and secondary to Isa 61, but coherent with Luke's Isaianic program.
Low confidence'The eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness' adds to the Isaianic chorus of restored sight behind the healing. It reinforces Recurrence of the opened-eyes promise. Contested and low: secondary to Isaiah 35:5.
Low confidence'the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity' — additional eschatological sight-restoration promise reinforcing the Isaianic background of the healing.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
'In that day the deaf shall hear... and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and darkness' frames the chapter's resolution: a blind man comes to physical and spiritual sight while the seeing are darkened. The double movement realizes Isaiah's reversal-of-perception oracle and coheres with the light/darkness frame.
Medium confidence