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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 18:1 → 2 Samuel 15:23

Echo

Later text

John 18:1BSB

After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 15:23BSB

Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:24

Significance

Kidron Valley mentioned frequently in LXX and Jewish intertestamental literature; in Gospels only in John. Part of Jerusalem's sacred geography.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — John alone among the evangelists names the Kidron crossing, in a passion narrative he has already keyed to the Davidic-betrayal pattern by citing Psalm 41:9 at John 13:18 ("The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me"); as David, the rejected anointed king, crossed the Kidron amid weeping on his way of exile, betrayed by his trusted counselor Ahithophel who then hanged himself (2 Sam 17:23), so the greater Son of David crosses the same valley into betrayal by Judas — with the escalation that David fled to save his life while Jesus crosses to lay His down. Analogy rather than Typology: the correspondence is genuine and escalatory, but John's signal is a place-name within a narrative frame, and the five essential characteristics of a type are not all demonstrable from the OT text.