Behold, these shall come from far; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.”
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'These shall come from afar... from the north and from the west' adds to the prophetic ingathering-from-all-directions tradition behind Luke's east-west-north-south. Recurrence across Isaiah strengthens the directional motif.
Medium confidence'Many will come from the east and the west' draws on the prophetic vision of dispersed peoples gathered from afar ('these from the north and from the west'); the directional, ingathering language and Gentile inclusion give strong thematic coherence.
Medium confidence