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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 14:24 → Exodus 24:8

Allusion

Later text

Mark 14:24BSB

He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

Earlier text

Exodus 24:8BSB

So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Isaiah 53:12BSB

Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Earlier text

Zechariah 9:11BSB

As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

Significance

Jesus innovatively combines Passover with Exodus 24's covenant meal and Isaiah 53's atoning servant death. "Blood of the covenant" echoes Exodus 24:8 where Moses bound Israel to Yahweh at Sinai, while "poured out for many" derives from Isaiah 53:12. Jesus compresses Israel's founding moment (exodus and Sinai covenant) around himself, claiming his death alone effects Passover deliverance and covenant inauguration. This supplants both Passover and temple, establishes Jesus as covenant initiator (Yahweh's role), and includes Gentiles ("the many") in Israel's "kingdom of priests" vocation.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology + Longitudinal Theme

▸ The Blood of the Covenant

Linked Mentions 7

Intertextuality Pairs 1

Isaiah 25:6 to Exodus 24:11

Trajectory Tables 5

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 24:8 — The Blood of the Covenant

Mark 14:24 → Exodus 24:8

Significance

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