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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 9:49 → Leviticus 2:13

Allusion

Later text

Mark 9:49BSB

For everyone will be salted with fire.

Earlier text

Leviticus 2:13BSB

And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:25

Significance

Jesus alludes to Leviticus 2:13's requirement that all offerings be seasoned with salt, called "the salt of the covenant." Salt represented covenant faithfulness, preservation, and purification. Jesus' saying "salted with fire" combines salt imagery with fire's refining quality, suggesting that disciples will undergo trials that purify and preserve their faith. Just as sacrifices required salt to be acceptable to God, disciples must endure purifying trials to remain faithful. This connects to covenant loyalty and the cost of discipleship, preparing followers for the suffering ahead.

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