Intertextuality Pair

John 13:34-35 → Deuteronomy 6:5

Allusion

Later text

John 13:34-35BSB

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 6:5BSB

And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
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Earlier text

Leviticus 19:18BSB

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 31:29-34BSB

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’ Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge. Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. "But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more."

Significance

Takes departure from Mosaic love commands but transcends. Resembles yet exceeds Dead Sea community (which stressed love within but "everlasting hatred for men of pit," 1QS IX, 21-22). Jesus preaches love for enemies (Matthew 5:43-48). New standard: "as I have loved you" (sacrificial, humble service). Possibly alludes to new covenant involving inner transformation (Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 36).

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

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