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Psalm 118:26

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

3 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name! We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.

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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.

Quotation3

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Luke 13:34-35

'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD' is quoted verbatim as the cry that will precede Jerusalem's seeing Jesus again. High Volume (direct citation) and strong Availability from the Hallel make this an unambiguous quotation.

High confidence
Luke 19:28-40

The crowd cries 'Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord,' quoting the pilgrim blessing of Psalm 118:26 with the added royal title 'the King.' This is a direct verbal citation embedded in the Hallel context of festal approach to the temple. High volume; the quotation is explicit and load-bearing.

High confidence
Matt 23:37-39

"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD" is quoted verbatim in v39 — the Hallel acclamation (already shouted at the entry, 21:9) whose future utterance conditions Jerusalem's seeing of Jesus again.

High confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 118
Psalm 118:1 2Psalm 118:6 2Psalm 118:22-23 3Psalm 118:22 9Psalm 118:25-26 3