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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Mark 7:10 → Exodus 21:17

Quotation

Later text

Mark 7:10BSB

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

Earlier text

Exodus 21:17BSB

Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:37

Significance

In Mark 7:10, Jesus cites both the fifth commandment (Exodus 20:12) and Exodus 21:17 — "Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death" (mot yumat) — as scriptural authority against the Pharisees' corban practice. The citation of Exodus 21:17 (and its parallel in Leviticus 20:9) demonstrates that the OT's concern for parental honor carried capital weight: cursing (meqallel, from qalal, to treat with contempt or dishonor) was a capital offense. Mark's phrasing (kakoō, "to treat badly, harm") captures the sense of active dishonoring. Jesus invokes this severe sanction to show the magnitude of what the corban tradition permitted: by allowing a verbal dedication to void the concrete duty to support aging parents, the tradition effectively sanctioned the equivalent of cursing — treating parents as though their needs were contemptible. The contrast between God's word (which protects parental dignity with capital force) and the Pharisees' tradition (which circumvents it) is sharp and intentional.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression + Contrast