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Sirach 24:19–22

Come to me, eat of my fruit

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Sirach 24:19–22

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^24:19I was exalted like a beautiful olive tree in the plains, and like a sycamore tree beside the waters along a wide road

^24:20I gave off an aromatic fragrance like cinnamon or balsam. I produced a sweet odor like the best myrrh

^24:21And I perfumed my dwelling place with sweet gum, and aromatic resin, and flower petals, and aloe, as well as the finest cedar from Lebanon. And my fragrance is like undiluted balsam

^24:22I have extended my branches like a terebinth tree, and my branches are of honor and grace

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John 6:31–51 — The true bread from heaven

Sirach's personified Wisdom invites the hungry to eat and the thirsty to drink. John 6 likewise uses food and drink imagery, but this is a thematic comparison rather than a New Testament quotation or demonstrated literary dependence.

source checked159 yearsTwo centuries before Capernaum, a Jerusalem sage already has Wisdom offering herself as food.

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scriptureSir 24:19-22
scriptureJohn 6:35, 51