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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 14:18 → Deuteronomy 31:6

Allusion

Later text

John 14:18BSB

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 31:6BSB

Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you."

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Joshua 1:5BSB

No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:11

Significance

Farewell setting. Jesus' "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you" (John 14:18) echoes Moses' parting assurance to Israel — "He will never leave you nor forsake you" (Deuteronomy 31:6) — and the same promise renewed to Joshua (Joshua 1:5). In both farewells the departing mediator grounds the people's courage in God's abiding presence; in John the promise is fulfilled in the coming of the Spirit (John 14:16-18, 26). The link runs on the divine-Presence/Paraclete strand — an analogy of farewell-assurance, not a Joshua-office typology — and remains unconfirmed by public-domain commentary (source note above); it is therefore cited as supporting/thematic, not CRITICAL, in TT 085.

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy (Presence/Paraclete strand)

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Joshua (Leader into Rest) Trajectory Table