Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
⛓ Read Jeremiah 8 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there?' supplies the physician imagery Jesus turns on his critics ('those who are sick need a physician'). The prophetic lament over an unhealed people lends thematic depth; verbal contact is the shared 'physician' figure.
Low confidence"Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?" supplies the OT physician-for-the-sick imagery behind Jesus' aphorism in v.17. The shared healer/sickness vocabulary is suggestive though faint, and the prophetic question concerns the unhealed wound of God's people, coherent with Jesus' mission to sinners.
Low confidence