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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 21:24 → Zechariah 12:3

Allusion

Later text

Luke 21:24BSB

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Earlier text

Zechariah 12:3BSB

On that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:40

Significance

Jesus predicts that Jerusalem "will be trodden down (patoumenē) by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled" (Luke 21:24). The language of Jerusalem being "trampled" echoes Zechariah 12:3 (ʾeben maʿămāsāh, "a burdensome stone"), where nations gather against Jerusalem only to be ground to pieces. Zechariah 12 is an eschatological oracle about a final siege and a subsequent divine deliverance; Jesus uses the "trampling" vocabulary to describe the interim period of Gentile domination that follows the 70 CE destruction. The phrase "times of the Gentiles" (kairoi ethnōn) has a parallel in the Gentile-domination periods of Daniel (Daniel 2; 7) and suggests a divinely bounded season during which the nations hold Jerusalem. The ultimate reversal anticipated in Zechariah 12:9-10 and Romans 11:25-26 lies beyond the current period of trampling.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Redemptive-Historical Progression