Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
⛓ Read Psalm 51 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.
Purge me and I shall be clean, wash me and I shall be whiter than snow voices the cleansing-by-washing that Titus names the washing of regeneration. The penitential plea for inward purity prefigures the saving bath grounded in mercy, not works.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow' voices the cultic cleansing from sin that 1 John ascribes to the blood. The plea for thorough purification is echoed.
Medium confidence'Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow' supplies the imagery of moral cleansing behind 'you are clean.' The penitential washing register coheres with Jesus distinguishing the bathed-and-clean from the betrayer. Wording overlaps in the wash/clean pairing.
Medium confidence