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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

John 1:17 → Exodus 31:18

Allusion

Later text

John 1:17BSB

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Earlier text

Exodus 31:18BSB

When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Exodus 34:6BSB

Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: "The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square14:05

Significance

Not sharp contrast but climactic eschatological revelation. Jesus fulfills Torah by perfect obedience, completion, and revealing true meaning. Transforms rather than abolishes. Jesus superior to Moses as mediator.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast + Typology