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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 20:35-36 → Job 1:6

Echo

Later text

Luke 20:35-36BSB

But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage. In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.

Earlier text

Job 1:6BSB

One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

Significance

Answering the Sadducees, Jesus teaches that the resurrected "can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God" (Luke 20:36). The only point of contact with Job 1:6 — where "the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD" — is the shared angelological idiom "sons of God," which in Job denotes the heavenly court. Luke makes no use of Job's throne-room scene, its accuser, or its wager; the phrase overlaps but the argument does not. So this is a verbal echo, not a method-bearing connection: Jesus is not reading Job but drawing on the common biblical picture of deathless heavenly beings to describe the resurrection state. The real weight of the passage rests on Exodus 3:6, quoted in the next breath (20:37) — the God of the living. What the deathless-sonship promise secures is Christ's own: those raised in Him share the angels' incorruptibility and, better, the Son's own sonship, adopted into a life over which death has no more claim (Romans 8:11, 23).

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme (the "sons of God" line, from the heavenly court of Job 1:6 through Adam, Israel and David's Son to the Son, in whom the resurrected become "sons of God")