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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 18:20-22 → Isaiah 45:19

Echo

Later text

John 18:20-22BSB

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered. “I always taught in the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret. Why are you asking Me? Ask those who heard My message. Surely they know what I said.” When Jesus had said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Him in the face and said, “Is this how You answer the high priest?”

Earlier text

Isaiah 45:19BSB

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Exodus 22:28BSB

You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:25

Significance

"I spoke nothing in secret" echoes Yahweh's words in Isaiah (45:19; 48:16; Brown; Schlatter). Jesus' point: not sinister conspiracy; message same in private as public (Morris; Carson; Borchert). When challenged (18:21-22), Jesus alludes to Exodus 22:28 law, denies violating it.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

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