It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Living waters going out from Jerusalem feeds the 'water of life' image; Zech 14 is a recurring matrix for Rev 21–22 (see also 14:7, 14:11). Coherence with Ezekiel's temple-river tradition.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem' supports 'the spring of the water of life' (v.6); fully developed in Rev 22:1. Thematic coherence high.
Medium confidence◇ Figural2
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
'From within him will flow rivers of living water' (v.38), declared 'on the last and greatest day' of Booths, draws on Zechariah's eschatological vision read at the feast: 'living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem.' Zechariah 14 is the Tabernacles lectionary, explicitly naming the feast (14:16-19), giving maximal availability and coherence. This is the spine of John's water typology here.
High confidenceOn the eschatological day 'living waters shall go out from Jerusalem.' Jesus relocates that eschatological living water into himself given to a Samaritan, fitting John's realized-eschatology and the 'hour comes and now is' just ahead. Moderate Volume, strong thematic Coherence.
Medium confidence