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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 16:28 → Isaiah 55:10-11

Echo

Later text

John 16:28BSB

I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

Earlier text

Isaiah 55:10-11BSB

For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.

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

Significance

Sums up Jesus' entire mission from sending (3:16) through incarnation (1:10-11, 14) to departure (14:19) and return to Father (dominant theme of chs. 14-17). Develops prophetic portrayal of sent and returning Word of God in Isaiah 55:10-11 (see commentary at 1:1; Brown).

Found via: Albert Barnes, Notes on the Bible (1834)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Typology