“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
⛓ 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The clause 'to deliver/set at liberty those who are crushed (oppressed)' is spliced in from Isaiah 58:6 (LXX 'aphesei tethrausmenous'), not part of Isa 61. The deliberate conflation of two 'release/aphesis' texts is a recognized Lukan composite citation; high Volume and verbatim LXX wording.
High confidenceAllusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Peter says Simon is in the 'bondage of iniquity'—literally a 'bond' or 'chain'—echoing Isaiah's call to 'loose the bands of wickedness' and undo every yoke. Volume is moderate (the bond-of-wickedness phrase), and thematic coherence is strong: sin as binding fetters from which one must repent. The correspondence is verbal-conceptual.
Medium confidence