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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 7:27 → Deuteronomy 7:6

Echo

Later text

Mark 7:27BSB

“First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 7:6BSB

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Isaiah 49:6BSB

He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square14:04

Significance

Jesus' statement reflects Israel's covenant priority—the children (Israel) must first be fed before the bread goes to dogs (Gentiles). Yet his willingness to heal the woman's daughter demonstrates that the "first" implies a "then," anticipating Gentile inclusion. Isaiah 49:6 promised Israel would be a light to nations, and Mark shows this beginning to unfold. The woman's clever response (even dogs eat crumbs from the table) receives Jesus' approval, illustrating that Gentile faith can participate in Israel's messianic blessings even now, foreshadowing the full Gentile mission after the resurrection.

Found via: G.K. Beale, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (2007) — TOSK's Mark 7:27 entry does not carry Deuteronomy 7:6, and neither Matthew Henry's nor John Gill's commentary on Mark 7:27 cites it by reference (though Gill's exposition gestures at Israel's covenant-adoption status).
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression + Longitudinal Theme