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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 10:16 → Isaiah 56:8

Allusion

Later text

John 10:16BSB

I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.

Earlier text

Isaiah 56:8BSB

Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: "I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered."

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Ezekiel 34:23BSB

I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.

Earlier text

Ezekiel 37:24BSB

My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.

Significance

Gentile inclusion in one unified flock under one shepherd. Fulfills Ezekiel's vision of reunited, restored people. Breaks down Jew-Gentile barrier (cf. 11:51-52).

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

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Gentile Inclusion (Light to the Nations) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Isaiah 56:7 — House of Prayer