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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 20:30-31 → Sirach 43:27

Echo

Later text

John 20:30-31BSB

Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.

Earlier text

Significance

Concluding statement in 20:30-31 finds literary parallels in several intertestamental Jewish writings (e.g., Sirach 43:27; 1 Maccabees 9:22, cited in Köstenberger).

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (the title anchor, Sirach, is deuterocanonical — not canonical Scripture)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None — shared literary convention of the modest concluding formula in Second-Temple literature (so Sirach 43:27; 1 Macc 9:22); the anchors are deuterocanonical literary parallels, not Scripture John is using.