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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

Acts 1:18 → 2 Samuel 20:10

Echo

Later text

Acts 1:18BSB

(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 20:10BSB

Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

Significance

Luke’s grim notice that Judas “fell headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines spilled out” (Acts 1:18) echoes the violent end of Amasa, whom Joab “stabbed in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground” (2 Samuel 20:10) — a fellow man of treachery whose bowels gushed out in the field. Scripture repeatedly marks the traitor’s death with this signature of exposed entrails and an abandoned corpse, a visible seal of covenant judgment on the one who betrays the LORD’s anointed. Judas’s fate is not merely gruesome fact but a legible sign: the betrayer of the true David meets the betrayer’s end. Set against it, the mercy of the gospel shines the brighter — for the same Lord Judas sold is the one who freely gives Himself for betrayers who repent, so that Peter, who also denied Him, is restored rather than destroyed.

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