to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
⛓ Read Isaiah 42 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.
Allusion5
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'To open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light' is lifted from the Servant's mandate: 'to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.' Paul's mission is the Servant's mission extended.
High confidenceThe Servant is appointed 'to open the eyes that are blind,' tying the blind-man healing to the Servant's commission and complementing the passion's Servant Christology in the prior pericope. Coherent within Luke's Isaianic program. Medium confidence.
Medium confidenceThe Servant is given 'to open the eyes that are blind,' tying the sight-giving to the Servant's commission Mark develops in this chapter. The healing thus enacts the Servant program alongside the ransom saying. Coherence with the chapter's Servant theology supports the link.
Medium confidenceThe Servant 'to open the blind eyes' resonates with restoring sight; strengthens the Servant-mission reading of Jesus' self-presentation.
Medium confidenceThe Servant is called 'to open the eyes that are blind'; the blind men's healing realizes the Servant's commission — tying this episode back to the Servant theme just sounded in 20:28.
Medium confidenceEcho6
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Servant's task to 'open blind eyes' frames Paul's gospel as the light that should dawn; 42:19's 'blind servant' sharpens the irony of unbelieving blindness. Volume is moderate but coherence with the Isaianic light/blindness cluster Paul is mining is strong.
Medium confidence'To shine on those who sit in darkness' echoes the Servant's commission 'to bring out... from the prison those who sit in darkness' (Isaiah 42:7). The Servant-as-light-to-those-in-darkness theme coheres with the salvation-dawn imagery.
Medium confidence'Recovering of sight to the blind' and 'release to the captives' resonate with the Servant's task in Isaiah 42:7 ('to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners'). Recurrence of the Isaianic Servant/blindness motif strengthens this, though the wording is closest to Isa 61/LXX.
Medium confidenceThe Servant is called 'to open the eyes that are blind.' The opening of eyes as the Servant's commissioned task links Jesus' healing to Isaiah's servant-of-the-LORD vocation.
Medium confidenceThe Servant's commission 'to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house'; the liberation of the jailer's prisoners realizes this servant-mission imagery. Thematic.
Low confidenceThe Servant's task of opening blind eyes and freeing prisoners overlaps the healing-of-the-blind motif and supports reading Jesus' deeds through Isaiah's Servant. Faint relative to chs. 35/61 but coherent with Luke's Servant Christology.
Low confidence