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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Mark 11:9-10 → Psalms 118:25-26

Quotation

Later text

Mark 11:9-10BSB

The ones who went ahead and those who followed were shouting: “Hosanna!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!” “Hosanna in the highest!”

Earlier text

Psalms 118:25-26BSB

O LORD, save us, we pray. We beseech You, O LORD, cause us to prosper! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. From the house of the LORD we bless you.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:39

Significance

The crowds quote Psalm 118:25-26, a pilgrim psalm sung during Passover and Tabernacles celebrating God's deliverance. "Hosanna" ("save now") invokes messianic salvation, while "blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD" welcomes the Davidic king. Mark uniquely adds "the coming kingdom of our father David," explicitly connecting Jesus' entry to Davidic messianic hopes. Yet ironic tension emerges—the crowds welcome the king, but within days will cry "Crucify him." Psalm 118's rejection-vindication pattern (verses 22-23, quoted in Mark 12:10-11) foreshadows Jesus' fate.

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

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 118:22 — The Stone the Builders Rejected