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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

Luke 12:5-7 → Job 1:1

Echo

Later text

Luke 12:5-7BSB

But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after you have been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him! Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Earlier text

Job 1:1BSB

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Amos 3:5BSB

Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?

Earlier text

2 Kings 23:10BSB

He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.

Earlier text

Job 38:37BSB

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:37

Significance

Jesus grounds fearless witness in the fear of God: "Fear the One who, after you have been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!" (Luke 12:5) — and in the same breath assures the disciples of that God's tender knowledge of them: "not one of [the sparrows] is forgotten by God ... even the very hairs of your head are all numbered" (Luke 12:6-7). Job 1:1 introduces the man who embodies both halves of that posture — "blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil." The connection is analogical: the reverent fear that shuns evil and the confidence that God overlooks nothing are, in Job as in Jesus' teaching, two faces of one relationship to a sovereign who both judges and cherishes; Job is not a type here but the canon's exemplary God-fearer, and his ensuing trial proves that the God who is feared is the God who never loses sight of His servant. The telos is Christ, in whom the two are reconciled: the One with authority to cast into hell is the same One who numbered every hair and gave Himself so that those who fear God need never dread Him — perfect love, purchased at the cross, casts out the servile fear (1 John 4:18) while deepening the reverent, until to fear Him is to treasure Him above all.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy