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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Mark 13:26 → Zechariah 12:10

Allusion

Later text

Mark 13:26BSB

At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

Earlier text

Zechariah 12:10BSB

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

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Earlier text

Daniel 7:13-14BSB

In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence. And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

Significance

Mark's parousia saying — "they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory" — is the Markan parallel to the Olivet composite of Matthew 24:30. Mark retains the Danielic core (Daniel 7:13, coming with the clouds) but compresses out the explicit Zechariah mourning-clause that Matthew preserves ("all the tribes of the earth will mourn"). The Zechariah 12:10 connection here is therefore inherited through the shared synoptic tradition rather than carried by a distinct verbal echo in Mark 13:26 itself: the same dominical saying that fuses Zechariah's looking-on-the-pierced-one with Daniel's cloud-coming underlies all three synoptics, and Mark's "they will see the Son of Man" presupposes the looking-upon that Zechariah 12:10 supplies. Read alongside Matthew's fuller form and Revelation 1:7's matching composite, Mark's compressed parousia announcement still bears witness to the one figure who unites the two prophecies — the cloud-coming Son of Man is the pierced One. The hope this holds out is that the returning Judge bears in His glorified body the marks of His self-giving; to "see" Him is to behold the crucified Lord exalted, and so to be moved from dread to adoring trust in the One who was pierced for us.

Found via: Beale & Carson (eds.), Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (2007)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

▸ They Shall Look on Him

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Anchor Texts 1

Zechariah 12:10 — They Shall Look on Him Whom They Have Pierced

Mark 13:26 → Zechariah 12:10

Significance

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