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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 22:38 → 1 Kings 19:4

Echo

Later text

Luke 22:38BSB

So they said, “Look, Lord, here are two swords.” “That is enough,” He answered.

Earlier text

1 Kings 19:4BSB

while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Significance

At the end of the upper-room discourse the disciples say, "Look, Lord, here are two swords," and Jesus answers, "That is enough" (Luke 22:38) — a curt close to a conversation they have misunderstood, not a call to arms (cf. 22:49-51, where He heals the servant's ear). The sole contact with 1 Kings 19:4 is the bare phrase: Elijah, fleeing under the broom tree, prays "It is enough; now, O LORD, take my life." But the two are unrelated speech-acts — Jesus dismisses a mistaken plan; Elijah, exhausted, begs to die — and the mere coincidence of the word "enough" cannot establish an allusion. This is recorded as an echo, not a source Luke draws upon. What does hold is the larger Lukan frame in which Jesus walks His Elijah-and-greater road to Jerusalem set on the Father's will: where Elijah wanted his life ended, the Son laid His down of His own accord (John 10:18) and rose to give it back to His friends.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None — the sole contact is the expression "That is enough" beside Elijah's "I have had enough, LORD"; as the Significance itself concedes, mere similarity of expression cannot establish an allusion — Jesus closes the swords misunderstanding while Elijah prays to die, unrelated speech-acts sharing a common phrase.