But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Herod with his soldiers 'humiliated him and mocked him,' dressing him in finery as a mock-king. The scorn/mockery of the righteous sufferer ('all who see me mock me') is the Psalm 22 keynote that Luke develops at the cross (vv. 35-37). The Herodian mockery prefigures it.
Medium confidence'I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised... all who see me mock me' — the soldiers' scorn, mockery, and ridicule of the kneeling 'king' enact the Psalm 22 sufferer's experience of derision (developed further at the cross).
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The scorned and mocked sufferer ('all who see me mock me') anticipates 'they will mock him,' linking the prediction to the passion psalm Mark cites at the cross. The mockery motif coheres with Mark's later use of Psalm 22. Contested here because the contact is anticipatory and thematic.
Low confidence