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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 22:47-53 → Amos 3:12

Echo

Later text

Luke 22:47-53BSB

While He was still speaking, a crowd arrived, led by the man called Judas, one of the Twelve. He approached Jesus to kiss Him. But Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?” Those around Jesus saw what was about to happen and said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?” And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And He touched the man’s ear and healed him. Then Jesus said to the chief priests, temple officers, and elders who had come for Him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs as you would against an outlaw? Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on Me. But this hour belongs to you and to the power of darkness.”

Earlier text

Amos 3:12BSB

This is what the LORD says: "As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.

Significance

At the arrest, Judas draws near to betray Jesus with a kiss, and when a disciple strikes the high priest's servant, Jesus says, "No more of this!" and heals the man's ear (Luke 22:47-51). The only contact with Amos 3:12 — the shepherd who rescues "two legs or a piece of an ear" from the lion's mouth, an image of Israel barely and partially salvaged in judgment — is the incidental word "ear." Amos's ravaged remnant and the servant's severed-then-healed ear share no situation, intent, or argument; the older significance-note on Judas's kiss does not even engage Amos. This is verbal coincidence, not method-bearing intertextuality. The scene's true resonance lies elsewhere: the betrayer's kiss answers Psalm 41:9, and Jesus' refusal to be defended — healing even a member of the arresting party — shows the Shepherd who will not save Himself so that His own may be saved whole. Where Amos could rescue only a scrap, this Shepherd loses none the Father gave Him (John 18:9).

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None — verbal coincidence on "ear" alone: the scrap of an ear the shepherd salvages in Amos's judgment simile has no relation to the servant's ear severed and healed at Jesus' arrest; the Significance fragment (on Judas's kiss) does not even engage Amos.