for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
⛓ Read Psalm 109 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.
The psalmist surrounded by 'lying tongues' and 'words of hatred' who 'attack me without cause' coheres with the conspiratorial false testimony of Mark's council. As another suffering-righteous psalm prominent in the Passion tradition, it reinforces the false-accusation matrix Mark draws on.
Medium confidence'Wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me... they encircle me with words of hatred.' The choreographed, flattering-then-accusing speech of Tertullus, joined by the assembled Jews, resonates with the imprecatory lament against encircling slanderers. Faint, no shared diction.
Low confidence