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Isaiah 53:7-9

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn’t open his mouth. He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people? They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he […]

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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.

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Mark 14:17-21 ?

The notion that 'the Son of Man goes as it is written' — a suffering and death foreordained in Scripture — coheres with the Servant who is led to slaughter according to God's purpose. Mark gives no quotation here, but the Servant Song is a leading candidate for the scriptural 'writing' about the Son of Man's fated suffering.

Low confidence

Figural1

A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.

Matt 26:20-25

'The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him' (v24) appeals to a scriptural script of the suffering one being handed over, the Servant 'led as a lamb to the slaughter.'

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 53
Isaiah 53:1 2Isaiah 53:3 13Isaiah 53:3-5 3Isaiah 53:3-12 2Isaiah 53:4 8Isaiah 53:4-12 2Isaiah 53:5-6 4Isaiah 53:5 4Isaiah 53:6 17Isaiah 53:7 13Isaiah 53:8 6Isaiah 53:9 10Isaiah 53:10-12 4Isaiah 53:10 5Isaiah 53:11-12 7Isaiah 53:11 13Isaiah 53:12 28