who say, Stand by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The separatist who says 'Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am holier than you' supplies the exact posture Luke's Pharisees adopt against table fellowship with sinners. Isaiah condemns this self-segregating holiness as a stench before God, which coheres with Jesus' vindication of welcoming sinners. Availability and thematic coherence are high; verbal overlap is thematic rather than lexical.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The unclean of Isaiah say 'Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you' — a perverse holiness that defiles. The demoniac's cry 'What have I to do with you... do not torment me' (v.7) and the swine's contagion echo the ironic uncleanness-as-holiness of Isa 65:5, where God calls such people 'a smoke in my nostrils.' Thematic coherence within the same oracle reinforces the allusion.
Medium confidence