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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

Luke 13:35 → Psalms 118:26

Quotation

Later text

Luke 13:35BSB

Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Earlier text

Psalms 118:26BSB

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. From the house of the LORD we bless you.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square6:35

Significance

Lamenting over Jerusalem, Jesus declares, "you will not see Me again until you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord'" (Luke 13:35) — quoting Psalm 118:26, the Hallel's pilgrim-blessing sung as worshipers ascended to the temple feasts. In its psalm-setting, 118:26 acclaims the one who comes to the house of the LORD; Jesus takes it as the acclamation Jerusalem will one day cry to Him — casting Himself as the awaited Coming One whose arrival the city has refused. The saying is fulfilled in stages: the Triumphal-Entry crowds shout exactly these words days later (Luke 19:38; Matt 21:9 / Mark 11:9 / John 12:13, all quoting Ps 118:25-26), yet the "you will not see Me until" points past that Passover to the eschatological turning when Jerusalem's welcome will be true and whole (cf. Matt 23:39, the same logion). The withheld sight and the promised blessing together fix the whole hope on a Person: the city that would not behold its King will behold Him at last and bless His coming — the veil lifted, the beholding restored.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; standard in Lukan scholarship. Corrects and supersedes the mis-targeted `Luke 13.35 to Psalms 118.1` (Luke 13:35 quotes the pilgrim-acclamation of Ps 118:26, not the opening thanksgiving of 118:1; the old file also carried templated boilerplate Significance shared with the Luke 2.34 IP).
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment