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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Mark 9:31 → Daniel 7:25

Allusion

Later text

Mark 9:31BSB

because He was teaching His disciples. He told them, "The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after three days He will rise."

Earlier text

Daniel 7:25BSB

He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:36

Significance

The phrase "delivered into the hands of men" (paradidotai eis cheiras anthrōpōn) in Mark 9:31 resonates with Daniel 7:25's prediction that the saints would be "given into his hand (yityahabun biydeh)" for a period. Daniel 7 depicts the Son of Man figure as the representative of "the holy ones of the Most High" (Daniel 7:18, 22, 27), who suffer under the beast before receiving the kingdom. Jesus, who elsewhere identifies himself as the Danielic Son of Man, appears to draw on this pattern: the Son of Man's being "delivered into the hands of men" recapitulates the Danielic pattern where God's representative is temporarily given into hostile human power before vindication. The resurrection "after three days" represents the eschatological reversal Daniel anticipates — the Son of Man who was handed over ultimately receives the everlasting kingdom (Daniel 7:14, 27). This connection is theoretical in that it is not cited explicitly but arises from the shared Son-of-Man framework that Jesus consistently employs.

Found via: G.K. Beale, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (2007) — TOSK's Mark 9:31 entry does not carry Daniel 7:25, and neither Matthew Henry's nor John Gill's commentary on Mark 9:31 references it.
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology (Direct Type, Backward-Looking) + Redemptive-Historical Progression