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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 12:10-11 → Psalms 118:22-23

Quotation

Later text

Mark 12:10-11BSB

Have you never read this Scripture: ‘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.

Significance

Jesus quotes Psalm 118:22-23, applying the rejected-stone-become-cornerstone pattern to himself. The builders (Jewish leaders) reject the stone (Jesus), but God makes him the cornerstone of the new temple-community. This continues Psalm 118's theme from the triumphal entry (11:9-10) and establishes the rejection-vindication pattern central to Mark's gospel. The religious leaders recognize Jesus' self-application (12:12) and seek to arrest him. This stone saying becomes foundational for early Christian ecclesiology and christology, showing how rejection leads to exaltation.

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

▸ The Stone the Builders Rejected

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Stone and Cornerstone (Rejected Foundation) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 118:22 — The Stone the Builders Rejected

Mark 12:10-11 → Psalms 118:22-23

Significance

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