I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
⛓ Read Joel 2 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Wonders in the heavens and on earth, the sun turned to darkness and moon to blood before the great and terrible Day. Jesus' celestial signs as harbingers of the coming day belong to this Joel sign-tradition, cited at Acts 2:19-20. Coherence reinforced by Lukan usage.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Joel promises wonders in heaven and on earth as portents of the Day of the Lord. Jesus' 'great signs from heaven' belongs to this Joel tradition of celestial portents, developed more fully later in the discourse. Coherence with Joel's sign vocabulary.
Medium confidence'Wonders in the heavens and on the earth' before the day of the LORD lies behind the catalogue of cosmic and terrestrial signs (wars, earthquakes); Joel is quoted heavily in early Christian eschatology and resurfaces in Mark's darkening of sun and moon in 13:24. Faint here, marked for recurrence.
Low confidence