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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 17:3 → Leviticus 19:17

Allusion

Later text

Luke 17:3BSB

Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Earlier text

Leviticus 19:17BSB

You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.

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Significance

Jesus' instruction "If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him" (Luke 17:3) develops the Levitical command of 19:17: hôkēaḥ tôkîaḥ ʾet-ʿămîtekā ("you shall certainly rebuke your neighbor"). Leviticus 19:17 contrasts the passive-aggressive response of nursing hatred in one's heart with the active care of frank fraternal rebuke. The context — following the prohibition of hatred toward one's brother — frames rebuke as an act of love rather than judgment. Jesus extends the Levitical principle into the covenant community of the Kingdom, adding the corresponding obligation: when repentance follows rebuke, forgiveness must follow immediately and repeatedly (Luke 17:4 extends to seven times in a day). The passage in Luke 17:3-4 is one of the clearest instances where Jesus is not abolishing the Mosaic law but intensifying and completing it within the relational dynamics of the new covenant community.

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