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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
True fasting is to share bread with the hungry and not hide oneself from one's own flesh, the prophetic demand to meet a needy brother's wants. John's test of love by sharing 'the world's goods' echoes this concrete charity. The 'do not hide from' your kin matches the closed heart John condemns.
High confidenceThe acts of true fasting/righteousness — 'share your bread with the hungry, bring the homeless poor into your house, when you see the naked, cover him' — closely match the King's catalog of hungry/stranger/naked in v.35-36. Isaiah 58 is the strongest verbal parallel for the works that mark the righteous.
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The call to hospitality (4:9) and stewardship of gifts toward one another resonates with the prophetic ideal of sharing bread and shelter with the needy. Thematic, faint.
Low confidenceThe demand that believers 'provide for their own household' may reflect Isaiah's true-fast call to share bread and not hide from one's own flesh. Failing one's kin is precisely the neglect of 'your own flesh' that the prophet condemns.
Low confidenceTrue fasting is 'to share your bread with the hungry... when you see the naked, to cover him.' James 2:15-16's example of a brother 'naked and in lack of daily food' whom one fails to clothe and feed echoes this prophetic critique of empty piety divorced from deeds of mercy. Faint thematic echo.
Low confidence