Later text
John 16:13BSB
However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
Intertextuality Pair
Echo
Later text
John 16:13BSB
However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
Earlier text
Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths. Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
Earlier text
Isaiah 43:19BSB
Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
Earlier text
“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob. “Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming. Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay. Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable. I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay. Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words. I was the first to tell Zion: ‘Look, here they are!’ And I gave to Jerusalem a herald of good news. When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say. See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
Divine guidance already psalmist's longing. Isaiah recounts God leading Israel in wilderness by Spirit, predicts renewed guidance in future. Second Temple literature applies "guidance" to figure of divine Wisdom. Jesus' reference may contain echo of OT terminology. Verb anangellō ("proclaim") occurs 40+ times in Isaiah where declaring things to come = Yahweh's exclusive domain (Isaiah 48:14). Close parallel: Isaiah 44:7 (Yahweh challenges anyone to declare things to come; cf.