Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?” Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel, because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation. Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors […]
⛓ Read Psalm 78 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.
Israel asks 'Can God spread a table in the wilderness?' and God rains food so 'they ate and were well filled.' Mark's 'they all ate, and were filled' in a deserted place answers the psalm's challenge. The verbal echo of eating-and-being-filled in the desert supports a solid allusion.
Medium confidence'Can God spread a table in the wilderness?' Israel's doubting question is answered as God rains down bread and the people 'ate and were well filled.' Matthew's 'They all ate, and were filled' echoes this wilderness-banquet vindication of God's power to feed in the desert.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?'—the psalm's retrospect on manna and quail, where the people 'ate and were well filled,' matches Luke's 'they ate and were all filled.' Strong verbal echo ('filled') and thematic coherence with wilderness provision.
High confidence