I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
⛓ Read Psalm 39 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I was mute; I did not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it' supplies a further psalmic instance of the sufferer's silent submission to God's hand. The connection deepens the lament-psalm coloring of Jesus' silence, though Isaiah 53 remains the controlling text.
Low confidence'I was mute, I opened not my mouth, because you have done it' offers a further psalmic instance of the righteous sufferer's deliberate silence under affliction interpreted as God's doing. The link is conceptual rather than verbal but belongs to the same cluster of silent-sufferer texts available behind Mark's twice-noted silence.
Low confidence'I was mute, I did not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it' — another silence-of-the-righteous-sufferer text contributing to the wordless-before-Pilate scene.
Low confidence