Thus says Yahweh of Armies: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
⛓ Read Zechariah 8 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.
The unbeliever convicted and declaring God's presence (14:25) draws on Zechariah's vision that ten men from the nations will grasp a Jew's garment, saying, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.' The shared element—an outsider's confession 'God is with/among you'—aligns with Paul's portrait of prophecy drawing in the unbeliever to worship.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Ten men... shall take hold of the robe (kanaph) of a Jew, saying, Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.' The nations grasping the garment-corner of the one with whom God dwells faintly resonates with the crowds reaching for the fringe of Jesus' garment.
Low confidence