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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
Intertextuality Pair
Luke 2:22-23 → Exodus 13:1
▶ Watch the video 9:11 Read the whole trajectory → Later text
Luke 2:22-23 BSB
And when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, His parents brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord: "Every firstborn male shall be consecrated to the Lord"), Earlier text
Exodus 13:1 BSB
Then the LORD said to Moses, + 1 more earlier text Earlier text
Leviticus 12:1 BSB
Then the LORD said to Moses, Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square9:11 Significance significant because they contain numerous references to the law of Moses together with the account of Jesus’ first visit to the Jerusalem temple.
Found via Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s) Typology + Redemptive-Historical Progression
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