who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
⛓ Read Isaiah 65 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Isaiah indicts the rebellious people who 'sit among the graves and lodge in the secret places, who eat swine's flesh.' Mark's demoniac dwelling among the tombs (vv.2-3,5) coupled with the herd of swine (vv.11-13) gives a remarkably dense convergence of both motifs — graves and pigs — that no other OT text combines. High Volume and Thematic Coherence: both passages concern unclean, rebellious figures marked off from covenant life, met by a God who reveals himself to those not seeking him (Isa 65:1).
High confidenceThe specific verse pairing dwelling among the tombs with eating swine's flesh concentrates the two defining impurities of the scene. Coherence with Luke's Gentile-territory unclean-spirit setting is strong.
Medium confidenceThe unclean who 'sit among the graves and lodge in the secret places' eating swine's flesh closely matches the demoniacs dwelling among the tombs amid a herd of pigs; strong cluster of unclean-tombs-and-swine imagery.
Medium confidence