For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
⛓ Read Psalm 16 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.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
Peter re-cites the climactic line of Psalm 16 in vv.31 ('neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption') as the resolved exposition of the quotation given in vv.25-28. Direct re-quotation at high volume; recurrence within the pericope is the structural point of the argument.
High confidence'You will not allow your Holy One to see corruption/decay' is quoted ('in another psalm') as the climactic resurrection proof-text, then argued to apply to Jesus and not David. Verbatim LXX quotation; the linchpin of the resurrection argument.
High confidenceAllusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'rise again from the dead' echoes the psalm's 'you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,' the standard apostolic resurrection proof from Scripture (cf. its explicit use in earlier Acts speeches). Recurrence high in Luke-Acts.
Medium confidence'By the resurrection of the dead, he would be first' rests on 'you will not leave my soul in Sheol; neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption' — the psalm Acts uses (2:27-31; 13:35) to prove the Messiah's resurrection.
Medium confidencePeter's 'you are the Holy One of God' (v.69) resonates with 'you will not let your Holy One see corruption,' a key resurrection/messianic title. Coheres with the chapter's raising-on-the-last-day refrain; the holy-one designation is OT-rooted.
Medium confidenceThe demon's title 'the Holy One of God' (ho hagios tou theou) draws on the OT 'holy one' (LXX hosios) of Psalm 16:10 (LXX 15:10), a text Luke applies messianically in Acts 2:27. Coherence with Lukan Christology; medium because 'Holy One' also has wider OT roots (e.g. consecrated figures).
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor let your holy one see corruption' was the apostolic resurrection proof-text (Acts 2:27; 13:35) and plausibly stands behind 'raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.' Coherence with the burial-then-raising sequence (vv.4) is good; volume is low here since Paul does not quote it. Marked echo, not quotation.
Medium confidence'the Holy One' (v. 14) recalls the Davidic 'you will not let your Holy One see corruption,' cited fully in Acts 2:27; the title clusters here with the resurrection claim 'God raised from the dead' (v. 15).
Medium confidence'Put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit' (3:18) and Christ's descent/proclamation faintly echo the Psalm of resurrection hope ('you will not abandon my soul to Sheol'), a text early Christians applied to Christ's vindication from death. Faint, thematic.
Low confidence'You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor let your holy one see corruption' became the foundational psalm-text for resurrection proclamation (cited at Acts 2:27). The empty tomb dramatizes the body not seeing corruption, but Mark supplies no citation, so the resonance is conceptual and low-volume.
Low confidence◇ Figural1
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
The narrator notes 'they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead' (20:9); the OT warrant most plausibly in view is 'you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor allow your holy one to see corruption,' the standard apostolic resurrection proof-text. The reference is generic ('the Scripture') so the source is reconstructed from early Christian usage.
Medium confidence