who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases;
⛓ Read Psalm 103 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.
Psalm 103 pairs the two acts Jesus performs together: God 'forgives all your iniquity' and 'heals all your diseases.' Matthew's scene welds forgiveness ('your sins are forgiven') to the cure of paralysis, enacting the psalm's joined benefits and implying Jesus does what the LORD does.
High confidence'Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases' yokes forgiveness and healing exactly as Jesus does ('which is easier: your sins are forgiven, or arise and walk?'). The Psalm's pairing supplies the logic that healing demonstrates the authority to forgive.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases" pairs forgiveness and healing exactly as Mark 2:1-12 does, where pardon is demonstrated by the cure of the paralytic. Thematic coherence is strong: the psalm makes the two divine acts a single benefaction, which is the logic of Jesus' "which is easier" challenge (v.9). Verbal volume is modest, carried by the forgiveness/healing pairing.
Medium confidence'Who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases' — the divine prerogative to heal 'all diseases' is exercised by Jesus, a faint resonance of God's healing kingship.
Low confidence'Who heals all your diseases' faintly coheres with healing 'all who were sick'; thematic, contested.
Low confidence