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Isaiah 65:2

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

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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.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Rom 10:14-21

Formula-cited ('But as to Israel he says'): 'All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people' — verbatim quotation of Isaiah 65:2, the chapter's climactic indictment of Israel's disobedience. Paired with 65:1 to contrast believing Gentiles and resistant Israel; high volume, the rhetorical capstone of ch. 10.

High confidence

Echo1

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

John 21:18-19 ?

'I have stretched out my hands all day long' supplies a possible scriptural backdrop for 'you will stretch out your hands,' read by early Christians as crucifixion imagery. Faint verbal touch ('stretch out hands'); coherent with the death-prophecy but contested as the source.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 65
Isaiah 65:4 3Isaiah 65:5 2Isaiah 65:13-14 2Isaiah 65:15 3Isaiah 65:16 3Isaiah 65:17 7