Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men; for it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,” than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.
⛓ Read Proverbs 25 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.
The counsel 'do not sit in the best seat... go and sit in the lowest place, so that he may tell you, Friend, move up higher' closely reworks Proverbs 25:6-7: 'do not put yourself forward in the king's presence... for it is better to be told Come up here than to be put lower.' High volume (verbal and structural correspondence), high coherence with Luke's reversal theme; among the strongest sapiential echoes in the chapter.
High confidence"They love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats" (v6) inverts the wisdom counsel not to claim the place of the great but to be invited up; same banqueting-status imagery Jesus uses elsewhere (Luke 14).
Medium confidence