For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
⛓ Read Isaiah 62 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you' supplies the bridegroom imagery by which Jesus interprets the festal joy of his presence as incompatible with fasting. The prophetic figure of God as bridegroom of his people grounds the metaphor; medium coherence.
Medium confidence"As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you" supplies the OT bridegroom-as-God imagery Jesus claims for himself in the fasting dispute (v.19). The metaphor of the wedding feast as the time of joy when fasting is impossible is distinctively prophetic, and Mark's recurrence of the eschatological-banquet theme supports the allusion.
Medium confidence'As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.' The prophetic depiction of God/the messianic age as bridegroom undergirds Jesus' self-identification as the bridegroom whose presence makes fasting impossible.
Medium confidenceThe bridegroom motif organizing the whole parable draws on the prophetic image of God/Messiah as bridegroom: 'as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.' Matthew makes the coming bridegroom the figure for the returning Son of Man, joining the eschatological wedding feast to messianic arrival.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you' - Zion-as-bride marriage imagery feeding the Lamb's marriage; reinforces Isa 61:10.
Medium confidence'As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you' contributes to the eschatological-marriage backdrop of presenting a pure virgin. Volume is low and the wording is not echoed, but the motif is coherent with Paul's betrothal language. Marked low as one strand of a cluster.
Low confidenceThe bridegroom-rejoicing imagery of God's eschatological marriage faintly underlies the lord 'returning from the marriage feast.' The wedding-banquet eschatology is a coherent but light echo.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
'As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you' establishes God/Messiah as bridegroom to his people; John casts Jesus as that bridegroom 'who has the bride.' Strong thematic coherence within the OT marriage-of-YHWH typology.
Medium confidence