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Jeremiah 32:17

The New Testament’s use of Jeremiah

4 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Luke 1:34-38

'Nothing will be impossible with God' also echoes Jeremiah 32:17,27, 'Ah, Lord God!... nothing is too hard for you... is anything too hard for me?' The omnipotence formula reinforces the Genesis 18 source with a prophetic doublet.

Medium confidence
Matt 19:23-26

'There is nothing too hard for thee' (cf. 32:27, 'is there any thing too hard for me?') is a near-equivalent declaration of God's unlimited power.

Medium confidence

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Luke 18:24-30 ?

Jeremiah prays 'Ah Lord GOD... nothing is too hard for you,' another standard OT declaration of divine possibility echoed by 'possible with God.' Reinforces the recurrence criterion alongside Genesis 18:14 and Job 42:2. Thematic, near-formulaic.

Medium confidence
Mark 10:23-31 ?

'Nothing is too hard for you' (Jeremiah's prayer) repeats the Genesis 18:14 omnipotence formula and reinforces Recurrence behind 'all things are possible with God.' Marked contested because Genesis 18:14 is the likelier primary source. Included for completeness of the divine-possibility tradition.

Low confidence