Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in […]
⛓ 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.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The longest Old Testament quotation in the New Testament. Hebrews lets Jeremiah's promise of a ‘new’ covenant do the demolition: the mere word ‘new’ pronounces the first ‘old… near to vanishing.’ Re-cited in part at 10:16–17 to bracket the central argument.
High confidenceThe phrase 'the new covenant in my blood' explicitly takes up Jeremiah's promise of a 'new covenant' that the LORD will make with Israel. The adjective 'new' (kainos) keys directly to Jeremiah 31:31, the only OT text promising a covenant so named, giving high volume and distinctiveness.
High confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Calling the love command 'new' evokes the new covenant with the law written on the heart, fitting the Passover/farewell setting. John presents internalized covenant love as the mark of the disciples. The conceptual coherence is strong though the wording is not quoted.
Medium confidence