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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Luke 24:47 → Isaiah 49:6

Allusion

Later text

Luke 24:47BSB

and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Earlier text

Isaiah 49:6BSB

He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Significance

The risen Jesus' final commission — "repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations (panta ta ethnē), beginning in Jerusalem" (Luke 24:47) — carries forward the Isaiah 49:6 Servant mandate that Simeon had cited at Jesus' birth (Luke 2:32). The bookending of Luke's Gospel with Isaiah 49:6 is deliberate: at the beginning, Simeon announces that this child will be "a light for revelation to the Gentiles"; at the end, Jesus himself commissions the proclamation to all nations. The Servant's mission to bring Yahweh's salvation "to the ends of the earth" (ʿad-qĕṣēh hāʾāreṣ) is now inaugurated through the resurrection witnesses. Acts 13:47 makes the Isaiah 49:6 citation explicit when Paul and Barnabas appeal to it as the scriptural warrant for Gentile mission. Luke-Acts is structured around the progressive fulfillment of the Isaianic Servant commission from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

▸ A Light to the Nations

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Isaiah 49:1-6 — A Light to the Nations

Luke 24:47 → Isaiah 49:6

Significance

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