Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: yet they didn’t listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 7 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them, yet they did not listen' (cf. Jer 25:4) is the prophetic pattern behind the householder repeatedly sending servants who are beaten and killed (21:34-36).
Medium confidenceGod 'sent unto you all my servants the prophets... yet they hearkened not' but treated them shamefully — the repeated sending of servants who are spurned and killed (22:3-6) reuses this prophetic-rejection schema.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God's persistently sending his servants the prophets 'rising up early,' only to have them met with stiff-necked refusal, underlies the parable's repeated dispatch and abuse of servants. Recurrence is high across Jeremiah's 'servants the prophets' formula; moderate volume and strong coherence.
Medium confidenceThe motif of God repeatedly sending his servants the prophets, who are beaten and killed, is a Deuteronomistic commonplace that Mark's sequence of mistreated servants dramatizes. Jeremiah's 'I sent you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them, yet they did not listen' supplies the theology of the rejected-servant chain.
Medium confidence"I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets... yet they did not listen' parallels the divine sending of prophets, wise men, and scribes in v34.
Medium confidenceGod's persistent sending of "all my servants the prophets... yet they did not listen" prefigures Wisdom's "I will send to them prophets" who are killed (11:49). A diffuse Deuteronomistic prophet-rejection pattern; low.
Low confidence