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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Matthew 21:42 → Psalms 118:22-23

Quotation

Later text

Matthew 21:42BSB

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Earlier text

Psalms 118:22-23BSB

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the LORD, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square9:22

Significance

Jesus applies this Davidic psalm to himself, identifying as the rejected stone that becomes the cornerstone of God's new building. The imagery plays on Hebrew wordplay between ben (son) and eben (stone) - the Son rejected in the parable becomes the Stone in the psalm application. What the builders (religious leaders) deem worthless, God makes central and foundational. This is "from the Lord," God's sovereign reversal of human rejection. The rejected Messiah becomes the foundation of the church, God's new covenant community built on Christ.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

▸ The Stone the Builders Rejected

Linked Mentions 4

Trajectory Tables 3

Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 118:22 — The Stone the Builders Rejected

Matthew 21:42 → Psalms 118:22-23

Significance

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