I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the assembly, I will praise you.
⛓ Read Psalm 22 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
From the great psalm of the righteous sufferer (Ps 22, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me’). The vindicated one calls the redeemed ‘brothers’ — the citation grounds the solidarity Hebrews needs between the Son and the ‘many children.’
High confidenceAllusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I will tell of your name to my brothers' is the psalmist's vow that 'I revealed your name to the people whom you gave me' (v6) enacts. Recurrence is strong (Ps 22 pervades the Johannine passion); Coherence high since the speaker declares the Name to a given community.
Medium confidence'I made known to them your name, and will make it known' (v26) restates the psalmist's vow 'I will tell of your name to my brothers,' bracketing the prayer with v6. The repeated declaration of the Name to the community gives strong Coherence and Recurrence within John.
Medium confidence'Go to my brothers' (20:17) recalls the vindicated sufferer's vow 'I will declare your name to my brothers,' the turn from passion to proclamation in the psalm John has quoted at the cross (19:24). The Psalm 22 frame gives 'my brothers' high Coherence and Recurrence within the Johannine passion.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The shepherds 'returned, glorifying and praising God' and publishing the saying recalls the psalmist's vow to 'declare your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.' The proclaim-and-praise pattern is coherent but generic, so a faint echo at best.
Low confidence'I will declare your name to my brothers' supplies a Davidic-righteous-sufferer model of a community of brothers gathered around the one who does God's will. Faint, but Psalm 22 is heavily mined by Mark's passion, raising recurrence.
Low confidence'I will tell of your name to my brothers' — the messianic figure naming the faithful as kindred ('brothers'); faint background to Jesus' new-family declaration.
Low confidenceJesus' instruction to tell 'my brothers' echoes the vindicated sufferer who declares God's name 'to my brothers' after deliverance; given Matthew's heavy use of Psalm 22 at the cross (27:35,43,46), the brother-language here may extend that figural arc.
Low confidence