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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 19:10 → Ezekiel 34:16

Allusion

Later text

Luke 19:10BSB

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Earlier text

Ezekiel 34:16BSB

I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:47

Significance

Jesus' programmatic self-description — "the Son of Man came to seek (zētēsai) and to save (sōsai) the lost" (Luke 19:10) — is the most explicit fulfillment statement of Ezekiel 34's divine-shepherd promise in Luke's Gospel. Ezekiel 34:16 records Yahweh's vow: "I will search for the lost (ʾăbaqqēš ʾet-hāʾōbedêt) and bring back the strays (wĕ-et-hanniddaḥat ʾāšîb)." The verbal parallel is precise: Ezekiel's search-and-restore language is reproduced in Luke's zētēsai and sōsai. The setting — Jesus' defense of his table fellowship with Zacchaeus, a tax collector — mirrors Ezekiel's condemnation of the shepherds who failed to seek the lost sheep of Israel (Ezekiel 34:4). Jesus' claim is not merely that he imitates Yahweh's shepherd care; it is that he is the divine shepherd who personally arrives to do what Yahweh promised in Ezekiel 34.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Divine-Identity (the seek-and-save vow of 34:16 is fulfilled not by a type escalated but by the divine Shepherd arrived in person: "he is the divine shepherd," Luke 19:10 — the label states the identity claim, not a backward-looking type; harmonized with the Ezekiel 34 ATN)

▸ One Shepherd

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Ezekiel 34 — One Shepherd

Luke 19:10 → Ezekiel 34:16

Significance

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