Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh. Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh. I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they […]
⛓ Read Jeremiah 23 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.
Jeremiah's woe against shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep, and God's promise to set faithful shepherds over the flock who will tend them, supplies the same prophetic shepherd critique standing behind the charge to elders to tend God's flock rightly.
Medium confidence'Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep' parallels the thief who 'comes to steal, kill, and destroy.' Jeremiah promises to set up shepherds who will feed the flock so none is lacking, coherent with John's life-giving shepherd over against destroyers.
Medium confidenceAgainst false shepherds who scatter, God will raise shepherds who 'feed' the flock so none is missing. Peter's reinstatement as a true shepherd who feeds coheres tightly with Jeremiah's contrast; moderate volume in shared feed/shepherd vocabulary.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The woe on shepherds who scatter and the promise that God will gather the remnant and set true shepherds over them stands behind the lost-sheep rescue. Coheres with Ezekiel 34 as the prophetic indictment of leaders who fail the flock, paralleling the Pharisees. Lower volume, so an echo.
Medium confidenceWoe to shepherds who scatter the flock; God will gather his scattered sheep and raise true shepherds. The shepherdless crowd that Jesus gathers and teaches coheres with this oracle of regathering. Recurrence of the false-shepherd/true-shepherd theme strengthens the echo.
Medium confidenceThe oracle against shepherds who scatter and fail to seek the flock, with God's promise to gather the strays, shares the shepherd/lost-sheep field. Contributory background.
Low confidence