He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
⛓ Read Leviticus 24 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'They took up stones to throw at him' enacts the statute that one who blasphemes the Name shall be stoned by all the congregation. High Coherence: the stoning response directly judges Jesus' I AM as blasphemous use of the divine Name, so the law of Leviticus 24 is the operative legal backdrop.
High confidence'We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God' invokes the Torah blasphemy statute commanding death for one who blasphemes the Name. The charge is legally grounded in this verse; high coherence with the trial logic.
High confidenceEcho5
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Stoning Stephen after the charge of blasphemy against the temple and God reflects the law that 'he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD... all the congregation shall certainly stone him.'
Medium confidence'He who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death... shall stone him' grounds the crowd's move to stone Jesus 'for blasphemy' (vv.31-33). The stoning-for-blasphemy procedure is the legal backdrop the narrative presupposes.
Medium confidenceThe scribes charge "blasphemies" (v.7); Lev 24:16 makes blasphemy of the Name a capital offense, supplying the legal background to their unspoken accusation. Coherence is high: Mark frames Jesus' forgiveness as an apparent usurpation of the divine Name that the Law guards. The link is conceptual rather than quoted.
Medium confidence'He who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death.' The scribes' verdict 'This man blasphemes' invokes the capital statute; the legal background charges the episode with the threat that will later kill Jesus.
Medium confidence'He is worthy of death!' (v66) on a charge of blasphemy applies the Torah penalty 'he who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death.'
Medium confidence