While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
⛓ Read Song of Songs 1 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Mary's pure nard whose fragrance fills the house echoes the Song's 'while the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.' The shared lexeme nardos (LXX) plus the banquet-couch setting and the diffusing scent give real Volume and Coherence; John frames the anointing of the messianic 'king' (the next pericope's title) in the idiom of the Bride's love-gift.
Medium confidenceThe woman's costly nard (nardos) poured on the reclining Jesus closely matches the bride's line, 'while the king sat at his table, my nard gave forth its fragrance.' The rare term nard and the banquet setting give real verbal volume, and the figural reading of the beloved anointing the king coheres with Mark's messianic scene, though Mark does not cite it.
Medium confidence