For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.
⛓ Read Psalm 36 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'In your light we see light' joins divine light to the source of life, matching the prologue's pairing of light and the Word of life. The verse provides a close conceptual parallel to God as unmixed light.
High confidenceEcho5
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light' fuses life and light as divine gifts, exactly the pairing of v.4 ('in him was life, and the life was the light of men'). Thematic coherence is high; flagged medium for absence of verbal borrowing.
Medium confidence'With you is the fountain of life' grounds the divine-fountain motif; Jesus' gift becomes 'a well of water springing up to eternal life' (v14). Coherence with the life-fountain image is high; Volume modest.
Medium confidence'With you is the fountain of life' — direct verbal source for 'the spring of the water of life' (v.6); pege zoes in LXX.
Medium confidence"In your light do we see light" may inform the light/darkness antithesis that governs walking rightly. The divine light as the medium of right sight underlies John's imagery.
Low confidence'For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.' The association of God with life and with light loosely supports the doxology's coupling of the life-giver (v.13) with the God of unapproachable light (v.16). A thematic resonance rather than a citation.
Low confidence