He shall take the two goats, and set them before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting. Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats; one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot for the scapegoat. Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh, and offer him for a sin offering. But the goat, on which the lot fell for the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away for the scapegoat into the […]
⛓ Read Leviticus 16 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.
Echo1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Day of Atonement two-goats typology: of two figures, one (Barabbas, 'son of the father') is released/let go and one (Jesus) is destined to die — many read the Barabbas-or-Jesus choice as a scapegoat/azazel figure. Genuinely debated but thematically coherent.
Medium confidence◇ Figural3
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
Pilate's Passover custom of releasing one prisoner while Jesus goes to death evokes the two-goats rite: one set free, the other slain to bear the people's sin. The released-Barabbas/condemned-Jesus pairing gives the scapegoat typology real Coherence with John's substitutionary 'one man for the people' (11:50; 18:14).
Medium confidenceThe crowd choosing between two: Barabbas released and Jesus condemned has been read figurally against the Day of Atonement pairing of the goat for the Lord (slain) and the goat released (Azazel/scapegoat). The pairing is structurally suggestive but Luke gives no textual signal; offered as a contested figural reading.
Low confidenceThe release of Barabbas alongside the condemnation of Jesus has long been read figurally against the Day of Atonement's two goats: one released, one bearing sin to death. The pairing of a freed prisoner and a doomed one invites the scapegoat typology, though Mark makes no explicit citation and the connection rests on conceptual coherence.
Low confidence