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Joel 3:18

The New Testament’s use of Joel

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.

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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.

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

John 7:37-39 ?

'A fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD' joins the Zechariah/Ezekiel temple-spring cluster behind the 'rivers of living water.' Joel's fountain from the temple coheres with Jesus as the eschatological temple-source on the feast day. Offered as a recurrent member of the temple-river tradition John draws on.

Medium confidence
Rev 22:1–5 ?

A fountain coming forth from the house of the LORD, watering the valley — a parallel temple-river tradition reinforcing Ezek 47 / Zech 14. Faint, contested as direct source.

Low confidence

Figural1

A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.

John 2:1-11 ?

Joel's day-of-the-Lord vision of mountains dripping with new wine belongs to the same prophetic abundance-of-wine cluster that informs Cana. The figural logic is that Jesus' first sign inaugurates that promised day. Coherence with John's 'his hour' / eschatological framing supports the reading though the verbal contact is thematic not lexical.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Joel 3
Joel 3:2 2Joel 3:12 2Joel 3:13 9Joel 3:16 2