He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”
⛓ Read Isaiah 8 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.
Simeon's oracle that the child is 'set for the falling and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against' draws on Isaiah's stone that becomes 'a sanctuary, but a stone of offense... many shall stumble and fall.' The fall/rise division of Israel over the sign is verbally and thematically coherent, a key prophetic warrant for Luke's divided-Israel theme.
High confidence'Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken' draws on Isaiah's 'stone of stumbling and rock of offense' on which many shall fall and be broken. Volume is high (shared falling/breaking imagery), it recurs in the NT stone-catena, and it coheres with the judgment turn of v.18.
High confidenceIsaiah's 'stone of stumbling and rock of offense' on which many 'shall fall, and be broken' supplies the first half of 21:44 ('he who falls on this stone will be broken'), fusing with the Psalm 118 cornerstone into a composite stone-testimonium.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The immediately following Isaianic 'stone of stumbling and rock of offense' (echoed in 1 Pet 2:8) suggests Peter has the whole Isaiah 8 context in view; the suffering-righteous who fear God not man inhabit that sanctuary-vs-stumbling frame. Contextual echo.
Low confidenceThe beatitude 'Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me' may invert Isaiah's stone of stumbling on which many fall, casting Jesus as the rock that tests Israel. The connection is conceptual and contested, hanging on the skandalon imagery rather than direct citation.
Low confidenceThe Lord becomes a snare and a trap to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and many stumble and are taken. The snare that suddenly catches the unprepared resonates with Jesus' sudden snare on the earth-dwellers. Faint recurrence of the snare-of-judgment image.
Low confidence