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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 15:25 → Psalms 69:4

Quotation

Later text

John 15:25BSB

But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’

Earlier text

Psalms 69:4BSB

Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me—my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Psalms 35:19BSB

Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

Earlier text

Psalms 109:3BSB

They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:33

Significance

Longest introductory formula in John (if not entire NT). Elliptical: "But [this happened] in order that the word might be fulfilled..." "Their law" ironically highlights Jews convicted by "their own law"; "law" = broadly "Scripture." Psalm 69 more likely source (widely regarded as messianic; evangelist previously cited 69:9 in 2:17; see also 19:28 possible allusion to 69:21). Parallelism between hate and persecution found in Psalm 68:5a-b LXX. Alternative: Psalm 35:19 (also Davidic prayer for deliverance from enemies "without cause"). Both psalms feature righteous sufferer zealous for God but persecuted by enemies. False charges highlighted (35:11, 21, 20; 69:4).

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

▸ The Reproaches

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 69 — The Reproaches

John 15:25 → Psalms 69:4

Significance

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