“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
⛓ Read Isaiah 55 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.
'Come... buy... without money' — the paradox of buying from God without price stands behind the ironic counsel 'buy from me gold' (3:18). Distinctive 'buy' (ἀγοράζω) imperative addressed to the spiritually destitute.
High confidence'I will give freely (dorean) to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life' (v.6) echoes 'Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters... without money' — free gift to the thirsty. Verbal ('thirsty,' 'freely/without price') and thematic match.
High confidence'Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters... without money and without price.' Direct source for 'He who is thirsty, let him come... take the water of life freely (dorean).' Strong verbal + thematic. LXX dorean matches.
High confidence'Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters... without money' parallels Jesus' free 'gift of God' (v10) of water that ends thirst (v14). Strong Coherence with John's thirst/gift language; moderate Volume.
Medium confidence'Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters' is the closest invitation-formula to v.37, 'if anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.' The thirst-come-drink structure and free offer match. John re-voices the prophetic summons with Jesus as the water-giver; medium confidence as an unmarked but strongly parallel allusion.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Come, buy and eat... without money and without price' faintly resonates with Paul's resolve to 'present the gospel free of charge' (v.18). The free-offer-of-divine-bounty motif coheres, but verbal contact is slight; offered as a low-volume figural echo of grace given without cost.
Low confidence'Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters' is the open invitational form ('Come to me, all') of prophetic Wisdom-summons.
Low confidence