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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 5:35 → Psalms 132:17

Allusion

Later text

John 5:35BSB

John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.

Earlier text

Psalms 132:17BSB

There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:37

Significance

Baptist as temporary lamp (not the Light itself, 1:7-9), fulfilling Davidic pattern. Marks Baptist's witness as important but limited in scope and duration.

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson (eds.), Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (2007)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology

▸ The Davidic Temple Promise

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 132 — The Davidic Temple Promise

John 5:35 → Psalms 132:17

Significance

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