Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 16 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.
The 'catching people alive' commission draws on the prophetic image of God sending fishermen to gather Israel ('I will send for many fishers, and they shall fish them'). The shared metaphor of human fishers as agents of God's ingathering gives volume; the call setting supplies coherence, though Jeremiah's image is originally one of judgment.
Medium confidence'I will make you into fishers for men' draws on Jeremiah 16:16, 'I will send for many fishers... and they shall fish them.' Volume rests on the distinctive 'fishers of men' image, which is rare in scripture; coherence is the chief question because Jeremiah's fishers gather for judgment while Jesus' gather for salvation, a deliberate transvaluation. Distinctiveness makes the allusion likely.
Medium confidence'I will send for many fishers, says the LORD, and they shall fish them' — the prophetic 'fishers' image stands behind 'I will make you fishers for men' (v.19). Verbal borrowing of the fishing-for-people metaphor, though Jeremiah's is judgment and Jesus' is gathering.
Medium confidence