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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 16:2 → Isaiah 39:6

Echo

Later text

John 16:2BSB

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

Earlier text

Isaiah 39:6BSB

The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.

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Earlier text

Isaiah 66:5BSB

You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!’ But they will be put to shame.”

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:29

Significance

John 16:2 belongs to Jesus' forewarning of the disciples' coming persecution: "They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God." The "time is coming" formula echoes the prophetic announcement of appointed days — Isaiah's "the days are coming" (Isaiah 39:6) — by which the LORD names in advance what He will bring to pass, so that when it arrives His people recognize His hand rather than being overthrown by it. The deeper and more terrible echo is Isaiah 66:5, where those who cast out and revile the faithful do so claiming to honor God: the persecutor mistakes his zeal for worship. This pattern of God's servants hated by the very people who profess to serve God converges on Christ Himself, condemned as a blasphemer by the devout. Jesus forewarns His own precisely so their faith will not fail — "so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you" (16:4) — turning coming grief into proof of His foreknowledge and mastery. The telos is not the warning but the One who gives it: Christ so possesses the future that even the disciples' suffering is folded into His purpose, and the forewarned believer clings not to circumstances but to the Lord who saw it all and remains sovereign over it.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression