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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 4:10-11 → Psalms 91:11-12

Quotation

Later text

Luke 4:10-11BSB

For it is written: 'He will command His angels concerning You to guard You carefully; and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.'"

Earlier text

Psalms 91:11-12BSB

For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:58

Significance

Satan's temple-pinnacle temptation consists of a direct quotation of Psalm 91:11-12 — "He will command His angels concerning You to guard You carefully; and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone" — inviting Jesus to put the promise to an artificial test. Psalm 91 is a song of trust in divine protection for those who dwell in the shelter of the Most High; the protection promised is for the covenant person who walks in faithful dependence, not one who manufactures crises to compel divine intervention. Satan's citation is precise but hermeneutically perverted: he applies a promise of providential care to a staged act of presumption. Jesus' counter-citation from Deuteronomy 6:16 ("Do not put the LORD your God to the test") demonstrates correct OT interpretation — Psalm 91's promise cannot be weaponized against the principle that testing God is itself disobedience. The episode illuminates how Scripture can be technically quoted while being interpretively distorted.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression + Analogy