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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 12:26 → Exodus 3:6

Quotation

Later text

Mark 12:26BSB

But concerning the dead rising, have you not read about the burning bush in the Book of Moses, how God told him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

Earlier text

Exodus 3:6BSB

Then He said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:37

Significance

Jesus argues for resurrection from Exodus 3:6, reasoning that God's present-tense self-identification as "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob" (long after their deaths) implies they remain alive to him. God is "not the God of the dead, but of the living" (12:27)—his covenant faithfulness ensures resurrection. This demonstrates Jesus' sophisticated hermeneutical skill, arguing from Torah (which Sadducees accepted) rather than prophets. The argument rests on God's character as covenant-keeper who will raise his people, anticipating Jesus' own resurrection as vindication of this claim.

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

▸ God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob

Linked Mentions 3

Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 3:6 — The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Mark 12:26 → Exodus 3:6

Significance

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