‘Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don’t see; who have ears, and don’t hear:
⛓ Read Jeremiah 5 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.
'Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear'—the near-exact phrasing of Jesus' double question. Jeremiah's indictment of a hardened, uncomprehending people supplies the prophetic template; the verbal volume is very high.
High confidenceJeremiah's 'who have eyes but see not, who have ears but hear not' is a cognate prophetic oracle of judicial obduracy that stands behind the Isaiah 6 citation and reinforces it. Volume is real but secondary to the explicit Isaiah quotation.
Medium confidence'Foolish people without understanding, who have eyes but do not see, ears but do not hear' — close parallel to v.13's 'seeing they do not see, hearing they do not hear.'
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Jeremiah's 'who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear' belongs to the same prophetic cluster Mark draws on for the ears-to-hear refrain. It reinforces recurrence within the Isaiah 6 family of hardening texts that frames the whole parables discourse.
Medium confidence