Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
⛓ Read Jeremiah 31 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The phrase 'the new covenant' (v.25) is verbatim from Jeremiah's promise of a new covenant (LXX Jer 38:31). Highest volume of any echo here; Jesus' cup-word interprets the Supper as the inauguration of Jeremiah's promised covenant.
High confidenceAllusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Servants of a new covenant' (3:6) is a direct appropriation of Jeremiah 31:31, the only OT text to name a 'new covenant.' Volume and distinctiveness are very high, and it anchors the heart-writing allusions of 3:3 and the whole chapter's covenant theology.
High confidencethe covenant inaugurated 'for the remission of sins' (v28) realizes Jeremiah's promised new covenant whose hallmark is 'I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more'; many texts read 'new covenant' explicitly here.
High confidenceThe covenant sealed in Jesus' blood evokes Jeremiah's promised 'new covenant' that the Lord will make with the house of Israel, written on the heart. Even in Mark's shorter 'blood of the covenant' reading, the eschatological covenant-renewal theme makes Jeremiah 31 a natural subtext; the explicit 'new' is firmer in the parallel traditions, lowering the volume slightly here.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
‘He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law’ (v. 6) pre-echoes the Jeremiah ‘new covenant’ oracle the very next pericope quotes in full (8:8–12). Hays' recurrence and satisfaction tests: the keyword ‘covenant… better’ seeds the citation about to dominate, so the faint anticipation is heard in retrospect.
Medium confidence