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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 5:22-23 → Genesis 18:25

Allusion

Later text

John 5:22-23BSB

Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Earlier text

Genesis 18:25BSB

Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Judges 11:27BSB

I have not sinned against you, but you have done me wrong by waging war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

Earlier text

Psalms 2:2BSB

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:47

Significance

Judgment is God's exclusive domain. Messiah in Second Temple literature remains in background regarding judgment. Jesus' claim to equal honor amounts to claim to worship—God's glory (Isaiah 42:8; 48:11) not compromised by honor given to Son.

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