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Isaiah 60:3

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Rev 21:22-27

'Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising' underlies 'the nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring...' (v.24). Isa 60 is the controlling text for v.23-26.

High confidence

Echo1

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

Matt 2:1-12 ?

'Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising' — the gentile-to-light/star pattern reinforcing the Magi following a star to the newborn king. Faint, thematic rather than verbal; contested as distinct from the broader Isaiah 60 field.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 60
Isaiah 60:1-3 10Isaiah 60:1-2 4Isaiah 60:19 3