His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
⛓ Read Zechariah 14 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.
'Whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and cast into the sea' is most pointed if 'this mountain' is the Temple Mount/Mount of Olives, which Zechariah 14 says the LORD will split and move on the day of his coming. The eschatological mountain-moving coheres with Zechariah's geography (the entry's Mount of Olives), giving the saying a temple-judgment edge.
Medium confidenceJesus delivers the discourse seated on the Mount of Olives, the very mountain on which Zechariah says the LORD's feet will stand on the day of judgment, splitting it in two; the eschatological setting is deliberately Zecharian.
Medium confidenceEcho6
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The ascension and promised return occur at/over the Mount of Olives (named in v.12), the very mountain on which 'the feet of the Lord' will stand on the eschatological day of his coming. Volume: low verbal overlap, but the geography is pointed and the angels' 'will come back in the same way' resonates with Zechariah's theophanic return to that mountain. Thematic coherence strong; recurrence modest. The setting makes this more than coincidental, hence echo/medium.
Medium confidenceJesus delivers the apocalyptic discourse seated on the Mount of Olives 'opposite the temple,' the very mountain where Zechariah says the LORD's feet will stand on the day of the LORD and the mount will split. The setting is freighted with eschatological geography, lending figural coherence to a discourse about the day of the LORD, though Mark does not cite the verse.
Medium confidenceThe explicit naming of 'the mountain called Olivet' reinforces the eschatological resonance of the Mount of Olives as the place of the Lord's coming (Zech 14:4). Volume low (toponym only). Recurrence: Olivet frames both ascension and the Lukan passion. Coherence ties back to the return promised in v.11. Listed at low confidence as a topographic echo.
Low confidenceOn the Day of the Lord his feet stand on the Mount of Olives, the eschatological theater of judgment and kingship east of Jerusalem. Luke's note that Jesus lodged each night on the Mount of Olives, having just delivered the end-time discourse, faintly invokes this prophetic Olivet locale. Faint geographical-typological echo.
Low confidenceMark situates the entry at the Mount of Olives, the very site where Zechariah says the LORD's feet will stand on the day of his eschatological coming. The geographic note may be loaded with this Day-of-the-LORD coherence, but the topographic detail is also simply realistic, so the allusion is contested.
Low confidenceThe Mount of Olives is the site where, in Zechariah, the Lord's feet stand on the day of eschatological battle and deliverance. Mark's repeated staging of decisive moments on Olivet (chs. 11, 13, 14) may quietly trade on this prophetic geography, though the link is locational rather than verbal.
Low confidence