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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 12:49 → Deuteronomy 18:18-19

Allusion

Later text

John 12:49BSB

I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 18:18-19BSB

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 8:3BSB

He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

Significance

Jesus as Prophet like Moses, speaking only Father's words. Father's command = eternal life. One greater than Moses here. Gospel comes full circle (cf. 1:17). Sets stage for passion narrative.

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

▸ A Prophet Like Moses

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Moses (The Prophet Like unto Me) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Deuteronomy 18:15-19 — A Prophet Like Moses

John 12:49 → Deuteronomy 18:18-19

Significance

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