For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
⛓ Read Zechariah 10 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.
The people 'wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd' because false guidance has failed them. Mark's shepherdless crowd resonates with Zechariah's diagnosis. Verbal overlap on the shepherdless-sheep image supports a solid allusion, though Numbers/Ezekiel are nearer.
Medium confidenceThe people 'wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.' Zechariah's shepherdless, afflicted flock parallels Matthew's 'harassed' crowds, adding a prophetic voice to the shepherd-deficit motif.
Medium confidence