The source
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
⛓ Read Proverbs 27 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Mark 14:43-49 ?
The proverb 'the kisses of an enemy are deceitful' (LXX) supplies a wisdom commentary on Judas' kiss, contrasting the faithful wounds of a friend with an enemy's profuse kisses. The conceptual fit is exact, but the connection is gnomic rather than a quoted source.
Low confidenceMatt 26:47-56 ?
'the kisses of an enemy are deceitful' is the proverbial frame for the betraying kiss.
Low confidenceElsewhere in Proverbs 27