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Isaiah 56:3-8

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people”; neither let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” For thus says Yahweh, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: to them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, […]

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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.

Echo2

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

Acts 11:1-18 ?

Jerusalem's verdict that 'God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life' coheres with Isaiah's vision of foreigners joined to the LORD and gathered to his house. A thematic echo of Gentile incorporation; no verbal link, so confidence is low.

Low confidence
Luke 14:15-24 ?

The gathering of outsiders — foreigners and eunuchs brought to God's house, 'others besides those already gathered' — anticipates the master sending into highways and hedges to fill the house. Coheres with Luke's Gentile-inclusion trajectory but verbally diffuse.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 56
Isaiah 56:3-5 2Isaiah 56:7 3Isaiah 56:10 3Isaiah 56:11 2