Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.
⛓ Read Zechariah 2 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.
'Gather the elect from the four winds' echoes Zechariah 2:6, 'I have spread you abroad as the four winds of heaven, declares the LORD,' a regathering-of-the-dispersed oracle. The eschatological ingathering of the scattered people from the four winds is the conceptual core of Mark's angelic harvest of the elect.
High confidence'I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven' (Zech 2:6) supplies the 'four winds' as the dispersion-points from which the elect are gathered at the end.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Zechariah's call to the scattered people belongs to the ingathering hope behind episynagoge; faint.
Low confidence'I have spread you abroad as the four winds' / the scattering and gathering language of Zechariah faintly resonates with the gathering of all nations before the throne, though the dominant gathering source is Joel 3.
Low confidence