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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 10:33-34 → Leviticus 24:16

Allusion

Later text

John 10:33-34BSB

“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.” Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods’?

Earlier text

Leviticus 24:16BSB

Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Psalms 82:6BSB

I have said, 'You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.'

Significance

Jesus argues: if Scripture calls human judges/leaders "gods" (ĕlōhîm—divine representatives administering justice), how much more appropriate for him whom Father consecrated and sent. Not abolishing monotheism but revealing union of divine and human. Affirms inviolability of Scripture (10:35: "Scripture cannot be broken"). "Your law" = ironic polemic (cf. 8:17).

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