They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water he will guide them.
⛓ Read Isaiah 49 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.
"They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither scorching heat nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them" — the densest verbal source in the chapter. John reproduces all four elements in order: no hunger, no thirst, no sun/scorching heat smiting them, and a shepherd-guide leading to springs of water. Hays' criteria max out (volume, recurrence of the Servant-shepherd motif, coherence with the new-exodus ingathering). LXX peinasousin... dipsesousin... kausön... pegas hydaton tracks John closely.
High confidence'They shall not hunger or thirst... he who has pity will lead them' supplies the hunger-and-thirst-abolished promise of the eschatological return. Coheres tightly with v.35's double negation; an exilic-restoration backdrop to the bread of life.
Medium confidenceThe redeemed 'shall not hunger nor thirst'; background for 'hunger and thirst after righteousness ... shall be filled.'
Low confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The redeemed 'shall not hunger nor thirst,' for God leads them by springs of water — paralleling 'never thirst again' (v14). Faint, but coherent with the never-thirst promise.
Low confidence'Springs of water will guide them' for the redeemed who 'will not hunger or thirst' — feeds the thirst/spring motif (v.6); also echoed in Rev 7:16-17.
Low confidence