The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
⛓ Read Zechariah 12 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.
'All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him' extends Zech 12:12's catalog of mourning families. Reinforces the Zechariah piercing-and-mourning complex; John universalizes Zechariah's tribes of the land into 'all the tribes of the earth.'
High confidenceThe enumeration of mourning 'families/tribes' in Zechariah 12:12-14 is specifically behind 'all the tribes (phylai) of the earth will mourn,' Matthew's universalizing of Zechariah's clan-by-clan lament.
Medium confidence