But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 11 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.
Jeremiah, a prophet brought as a lamb to slaughter against whom his enemies 'devise devices,' is the classic prophetic prototype of the messenger targeted by a covert plot. Luke's Paul stands in this Jeremianic line of the rejected prophet; the link is figural-thematic, contested.
Low confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter' echoes the innocent-victim lamb of v.29, reinforcing the Isaiah 53 sense. Faint and contested as an independent source but a genuine OT lamb-as-victim parallel.
Low confidence