How to read this page

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

Graph View — tap the constellation icon in the top bar to see this page's connections as a web of light: gold points are passages, and the coloured threads are the connection types. Click any type in the graph's own legend to filter it in or out, and use the expand control for the full-screen night sky.

New to a term? The Glossary explains every abbreviation and term on the site in plain words.

Intertextuality Pair

John 4:5 → Genesis 33:19

Echo

Later text

John 4:5BSB

So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Earlier text

Genesis 33:19BSB

And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Joshua 24:32BSB

And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

Earlier text

Exodus 13:19BSB

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, "God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place."

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:31

Significance

Places Jesus' encounter with Samaritan woman in framework of "holy geography" which Jesus transcends. Jesus greater than Jacob (cf. 1:51).

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