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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 22:21-23 → Psalms 121:1

Echo

Later text

Luke 22:21-23BSB

Look! The hand of My betrayer is with Mine on the table. Indeed, the Son of Man will go as it has been determined, but woe to that man who betrays Him.” Then they began to question among themselves which of them was going to do this.

Earlier text

Psalms 121:1BSB

A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Psalm 41:9BSB

Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

Significance

The pairing named in this file's title does not exist. Luke 22:21-23 is the announcement of the betrayal at the table: "Look! The hand of My betrayer is with Mine on the table." Psalm 121:1 is the opening of a song of ascents — "I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?" There is no shared vocabulary, no shared situation, and no argument running between them. A hand on a table and eyes lifted to hills have nothing to do with one another. This is a verse-anchor error, not a connection.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None warranted for the named source

The text Luke's scene actually stands on is Psalm 41:9: "Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me." That psalm supplies exactly what Luke 22:21 turns on — the betrayer is not an outsider but a table-companion, and the treachery is aggravated precisely by the shared meal. John 13:18 quotes Psalm 41:9 explicitly at this very moment in the upper room, with a citation formula ("that the Scripture may be fulfilled"), which settles the identification: the early church read the betrayal at table through Psalm 41. Luke does not quote the psalm, but he preserves the table detail that makes the psalm the operative background, and he adds the theological frame the psalm cannot supply on its own: "the Son of Man will go as it has been determined, but woe to that man who betrays Him" — divine determination and human guilt held together without either dissolving the other.

Recommended disposition: withdraw the Psalm 121:1 pairing and re-anchor this connection to Psalm 41:9, if a Luke-to-Psalm-41 pair is wanted for this folder. Retained here without deletion for judgment.

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