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Sirach 29:11

The New Testament’s use of Sirach

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Bestow your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High; And it shall profit you more than gold.

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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.

Luke 12:32-34

'Lay up your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High, and it will profit you more than gold' is the closest source for 'make for yourselves... a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail.' The almsgiving-as-imperishable-treasure logic gives high Volume and Coherence.

High confidence
Mark 10:17-22

'Lay up your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High, and it will profit you more than gold' is the closest Second-Temple parallel to 'you will have treasure in heaven.' The instruction to convert wealth into a heavenly account, set beside almsgiving, matches Jesus' counsel precisely. Availability and verbal proximity make this a primary deuterocanonical source.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Sirach 29
Sirach 29:10-12 3