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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

Mark 10:19 → Exodus 20:12-16

Quotation

Later text

Mark 10:19BSB

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”

Earlier text

Exodus 20:12-16BSB

Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 5:16-20BSB

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:09

Significance

Jesus strategically omits the first table (duties toward God) and focuses on social obligations to test the man's functional idolatry—his wealth. The addition "do not defraud" reflects Leviticus 19:13 and Malachi 3:5, particularly relevant for wealthy individuals. The man's claim to have kept these "from my youth" sets up Jesus' penetrating diagnosis: he lacks "one thing"—total commitment to God through renouncing wealth (10:21). The commandments serve pedagogically to expose the man's true allegiance and his failure to love God wholeheartedly, illustrating that external law-keeping doesn't indicate heart transformation.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Analogy

▸ The Decalogue

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 20 — The Decalogue

Mark 10:19 → Exodus 20:12-16

Significance

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