They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
⛓ Read Numbers 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh.' Title source for 'the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets' (Rev adapts 'of all flesh' to 'of the prophets'). Coherence with Num 27:16.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'God of the spirits of all flesh' supports the universal life-giver theme of v.25.
Low confidence'God of the spirits of all flesh' / the giving-up of spirit may faintly evoke the biblical idiom of the breath/spirit returning to God (cf. Eccl 12:7). Thematic background for the 'breathed his last'; not a specific Lukan target.
Low confidence