‘Why have we fasted,’ say they, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors. Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don’t fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a […]
⛓ Read Isaiah 58 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Isaiah's polemic against fasting done for show ('to be heard on high'... bowing the head like a reed) versus the fast God chooses — the prophetic template for Jesus' contrast between hypocritical and hidden fasting.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Isaiah 58 rebukes those who fast yet oppress, contrasting empty self-righteous fasting with the fast God chooses (justice and mercy to the poor). The Pharisee's boast of fasting twice a week and tithing, set against the justified penitent, draws on this prophetic critique of cultic display divorced from righteousness. Coherent with Luke's piety-critique.
Medium confidence