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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 10:6-8 → Genesis 1:27

Quotation

Later text

Mark 10:6-8BSB

However, from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.' ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Earlier text

Genesis 1:27BSB

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Genesis 2:24BSB

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:45

Significance

Jesus employs striking hermeneutical move—using earlier Scripture (creation ordinances) to interpret later Scripture (Mosaic legislation), prioritizing God's intent "from the beginning" over Deuteronomy 24:1-4's divorce provision. Genesis 1:27 establishes male-female complementarity and equality in God's image, while Genesis 2:24's "one flesh" describes covenantal unity beyond sexual union. Jesus declares any divorce contradicts God's will, transcending rabbinic debates and demonstrating his interpretive authority. This shows that new creation/new exodus involves restoration to creation's original design, and elevates women's status in a culture allowing casual male-initiated divorce.

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

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Genesis 2:24 — One Flesh