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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 22:24 → Genesis 38:8

Quotation

Later text

Matthew 22:24BSB

“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.

Earlier text

Genesis 38:8BSB

Then Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother's wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother."

Significance

The Sadducees' challenge on the resurrection cites Moses's teaching on levirate marriage, which originates in Genesis 38 (the practice of Judah's family) and was later codified in Deuteronomy 25:5-6 (cited in Matthew 22:24's parallel in Mark 12:19). Genesis 38:8 records Judah's command to his son Onan: "Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother" (yabam et-ishto). The Sadducees construct a scenario designed to make resurrection appear absurd using the very institution that the Torah legislated to preserve the family line and name of the deceased within the covenant community. Jesus's response does not address the levirate law itself but corrects the Sadducees' fundamental theological errors: they do not know the Scriptures (which attest resurrection) or the power of God (whose eschatological order transcends the social institutions of this age).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression + Analogy