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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Luke 21:27 → Zechariah 12:10

Allusion

Later text

Luke 21:27BSB

At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Earlier text

Zechariah 12:10BSB

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

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Earlier text

Daniel 7:13-14BSB

In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence. And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

Significance

Luke's parousia saying — "they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory" — is the Lukan parallel to the Olivet composite preserved fully in Matthew 24:30. Like Mark, Luke retains the Danielic cloud-coming (Daniel 7:13) but compresses out the explicit Zechariah mourning-clause ("all the tribes of the earth will mourn") that Matthew alone spells out. The Zechariah 12:10 connection is thus carried by the shared synoptic tradition behind all three Gospels rather than by a separate verbal echo in Luke 21:27 itself: the dominical saying that fuses Zechariah's looking-and-mourning with Daniel's Son-of-Man arrival underlies Luke's "they will see the Son of Man," and the seeing presupposes the looking-upon that Zechariah supplies. Read in concert with Matthew's fuller form and the matching composite at Revelation 1:7, Luke's announcement testifies to the single figure who unites the two prophecies — the cloud-coming Son of Man is the One who was pierced. Luke himself glosses the moment with hope: "stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near" (21:28). The returning Lord is the crucified Lord; to see Him is to behold redemption embodied, and the believer's response is not fear but lifted-up, longing joy in the One whose wounds secure that redemption.

Found via: Beale & Carson (eds.), Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (2007)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

▸ They Shall Look on Him

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Zechariah 12:10 — They Shall Look on Him Whom They Have Pierced

Luke 21:27 → Zechariah 12:10

Significance

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