Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
⛓ Read Lamentations 3 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.
'Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him' — close parallel to 'turn the other cheek.'
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him; let him be filled with insults' commends the silent acceptance of the blow that Jesus models when struck and then reasons quietly rather than retaliating. The give-the-cheek motif coheres with the righteous-sufferer pattern shaping the interrogation scene.
Medium confidence'Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him; let him be filled with reproach' is a striking verbal parallel to 'to him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other.' Notable Volume despite being a lament rather than a command.
Medium confidence'Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him; let him be filled with insults' echoes the patient endurance of blows and reproach that Jesus exemplifies. The link is thematic and secondary to Isaiah 50:6, so it is marked low.
Low confidence'Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him; let him be filled with insults' — the righteous-sufferer ethic of submitting to blows and insults, coherent with the mockery scene.
Low confidence