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. The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
⛓ 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Isaiah 29 pairs the deaf hearing and the blind seeing with the poor and meek rejoicing, supplying a second Isaianic source for the same sign-cluster and reinforcing the composite character of Jesus' reply. Recurrence within Isaiah strengthens the case even if Luke's wording leans more on chs. 35 and 61.
Medium confidence'In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and the eyes of the blind shall see' reinforces the deaf-hearing motif of Isaiah 35 and ties back to the chapter's earlier Isaiah 29:13 citation, giving recurrence within the same prophetic source. The opening of ears is the visible sign of the promise.
Medium confidence'The deaf shall hear... the eyes of the blind shall see... the meek shall obtain fresh joy' — recurrence with the Isaiah 29 already quoted in 15:8-9 binds the chapter; the healings fulfill the same oracle.
Medium confidence