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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 17:5 → Exodus 19:5

Echo

Later text

John 17:5BSB

And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

Earlier text

Exodus 19:5BSB

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

2 Samuel 7:25-26BSB

And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised, so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, 'The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.' And the house of Your servant David will be established before You.

Earlier text

Proverbs 8:28BSB

when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,

Significance

"And now" found also in OT in Yahweh's instructions to Moses, conclusion of David's prayer, with reference to result following from truth of certain facts (Beasley-Murray). Preexistence ascribed also to wisdom in Second Temple literature (Wisdom 7:25; 9:10-11) based on Proverbs portrayal (esp. 8:28, 30). In John's Gospel preexistence ascribed to Jesus by: designation "the Word" (1:1, 14); title "Son of Man" (3:13; 6:62); "I am" preceding Abraham (8:58); coming from Father and returning (16:28).

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None — stylistic septuagintalism: the contact is the discourse formula "And now" that opens climactic covenant speech (Exodus 19:5's declaration; David's prayer, 2 Sam 7:25), a transition idiom of biblical prayer style; Jesus' petition for pre-creation glory makes no use of Sinai's treasured-possession content.

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 19:5-6 — A Kingdom of Priests