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Isaiah 66:2

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

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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.

Acts 7:44-50

'Didn't my hand make all these things?' continues the Isaiah 66 citation ('all those things hath mine hand made'), grounding the anti-temple argument in the Creator's transcendence.

High confidence

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Matt 5:1-12

God regards the poor, contrite in spirit, who tremble at his word — background for 'blessed are the poor in spirit.'

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 66
Isaiah 66:1 4Isaiah 66:5 4Isaiah 66:7 2Isaiah 66:13 4Isaiah 66:19 2Isaiah 66:22 5Isaiah 66:24 7