One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
⛓ Read Psalm 27 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.
Echo4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'One thing I have asked... to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life' supplies the prototypical longing for permanent residence in God's house that 14:2-3 grants the disciples. Recurrence of the 'house of the LORD as abode' topos in the Psalter strengthens the case; the contestation is that John gives no verbal cue, only the dwelling theme.
Medium confidenceMary's choice of the one thing needful, to sit and hear the Lord's word, resonates with the psalmist's one thing I have asked, to dwell in the LORD's house and gaze on his beauty. The shared one-thing focus on devoted presence before God gives a genuine if non-verbal echo.
Medium confidencePaul's ideal of attending to the Lord 'without distraction'—the unmarried devoted to the things of the Lord—resonates with the psalmist's single desire 'to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon his beauty.' The undivided-devotion motif coheres; volume is low and conceptual. Contested.
Low confidenceJesus' devotion to being 'in my Father's house' resonates with the psalmist's one desire 'to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life.' The longing-for-God's-house theme is coherent but generic, hence a faint supporting echo.
Low confidence