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Zechariah 13:1

The New Testament’s use of Zechariah

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

“In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

John 19:31-37 ?

Immediately after the piercing in Zechariah, 'a fountain shall be opened... for sin and uncleanness,' resonates with the blood and water flowing from the pierced side. Adjacent context to the quoted 12:10; medium volume and coherent.

Medium confidence

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

1 John 1:6-7

'A fountain opened... to cleanse from sin and uncleanness' anticipates a definitive cleansing from sin, matching the blood that cleanses from all sin. The eschatological purification motif resonates.

Medium confidence
John 13:4-11 ?

The fountain opened 'for sin and for impurity' supplies an eschatological cleansing backdrop. The connection is thematic and the wording does not closely match. Marked faint.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Zechariah 13
Zechariah 13:7 10Zechariah 13:9 7