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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 6:14 → Deuteronomy 18:15

Allusion

Later text

John 6:14BSB

When the people saw the sign that Jesus had performed, they began to say, “Truly this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 18:15BSB

The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.

Significance

Featured at Qumran (4Q175 5-8; 1QS IX, 11). Rabbi Isaac (ca. AD 300): "As the former redeemer caused manna to descend, so will the latter Redeemer" (Eccles. Rab. 1:9). Popular expectation merged "prophet" with "king" (cf.

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

▸ A Prophet Like Moses

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Moses (The Prophet Like unto Me) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Deuteronomy 18:15-19 — A Prophet Like Moses

John 6:14 → Deuteronomy 18:15

Significance

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