It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
⛓ 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Formula-cited climax: 'Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved' — verbatim quotation of Joel 2:32 (LXX 3:5). Paul reads kyrios as the risen Jesus (10:9, 'Jesus is Lord'), grounding the Jew-Greek universalism of 10:12. Also cited in Acts 2:21; high recurrence.
High confidenceAllusion6
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'All who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place' reworks Joel's 'everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved,' transferring the divine Name to Jesus. Volume is high (distinctive idiom 'call on the name'), recurrence strong in Paul (Rom 10:13), and the eschatological-salvation theme coheres tightly with the surrounding 'day of the Lord' language.
High confidenceOn Mount Zion there is the remnant of survivors/redeemed whom the LORD calls; supplies the gathered eschatological company on Zion who bear the divine name. Volume and thematic fit; LXX Joel 3:5 (= Heb 2:32) reads 'in Mount Zion... shall be those who are saved.'
High confidence'Those who call on the Lord' draws on the promise that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved, the OT formula for the worshipping covenant people. Paul restricts it to those who call from a pure heart.
Medium confidence'The promise is to you and to your children and to all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself' (v.39) picks up Joel's closing clause ('whoever calls on the name of the Lord... among the survivors whom the Lord calls'), already quoted in v.21. The 'as many as the Lord shall call' is a deliberate verbal echo of Joel's remnant 'whom the Lord calls.' Moderate volume, strong recurrence (re-using the just-cited oracle), high coherence.
Medium confidence'calling on the name of the Lord' (v16) quotes the Joel formula ('everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved'), already programmatic in Acts; here bound to baptism and the washing away of sins. Clear verbal contact.
Medium confidence'Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved... in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape' underwrites repentance/forgiveness proclaimed 'in his name' beginning from Jerusalem. Luke cites Joel 2 at Pentecost (Acts 2:21), making it a strong intertext for the commission. Recurrence in Luke-Acts supports it.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Verse 12's stress that salvation comes only through 'the name' echoes Joel 2:32 (LXX 3:5), 'everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved' — the same name-and-salvation linkage Peter cited at Pentecost (Acts 2:21), now narrowed to the name of Jesus. Thematic coherence is strong; the recurrence in Acts strengthens the link.
Medium confidenceThe promise that whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved follows the Spirit-outpouring oracle and undergirds the language of being saved according to mercy. The Joel context links Spirit and salvation as Titus does.
Low confidence