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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 19:31 → Deuteronomy 21:22-23

Allusion

Later text

John 19:31BSB

It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 21:22-23BSB

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree, you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Earlier text

Joshua 8:29BSB

He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.

Significance

Jews' attitude based on Deuteronomy 21:22-23: bodies of hanged criminals must not defile land by remaining on tree overnight. Evidence that at times, especially during feast days, bodies taken down and given to relatives (Philo, Flaccus 83-85). Josephus indicates application extended to cover crucified (Jewish War 4.317; cf. Galatians 3:13).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology + Contrast

▸ Cursed Is He Who Hangs

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Deuteronomy 21:23 — Cursed Is He Who Hangs on a Tree

John 19:31 → Deuteronomy 21:22-23

Significance

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