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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 8:17 → Deuteronomy 17:6

Quotation

Later text

John 8:17BSB

Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 17:6BSB

On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness. Deuteronomy 17:6

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Numbers 35:30BSB

If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:30

Significance

Jesus appeals to Torah requirement for multiple witnesses, claiming Father as second witness.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Analogy