“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? Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
⛓ 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.
"He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none ... he who has food" closely matches Isaiah 58:7's true fast: share bread with the hungry and cover the naked. The verbal pairing of clothing and food for the destitute gives this real Volume as the prophetic template for John's instruction.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Isaiah's true fast as sharing bread with the hungry links almsgiving and fasting as authentic versus performative piety, the very contrast Jesus draws.
Low confidence