Later text
Acts 1:21BSB
Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have accompanied us the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
Intertextuality Pair
Acts 1:21 → 2 Kings 19:27
Echo
Earlier text
But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
+ 3 more earlier texts
Earlier text
who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”
Earlier text
he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’
Earlier text
Joshua 24:11BSB
After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.
Significance
The qualification for Judas’s replacement is that he be one “of the men who have accompanied us the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us” (Acts 1:21). The phrase “go out and come in” is a Hebraic idiom for the whole course of a person’s public life and leadership — used of Israel’s need for a shepherd to “lead them out and bring them in” (Numbers 27:17), of Moses’ and Joshua’s ministries (Deuteronomy 31:2), and, as echoed here, of the LORD’s intimate knowledge of a man’s “going out and coming in” (2 Kings 19:27). Luke applies it to the apostolic requirement: a witness must have known the entirety of Jesus’ earthly ministry, from John’s baptism to the ascension (1:22). The idiom safeguards the historical grounding of the gospel — the apostolate rests not on visions but on those who accompanied the incarnate Lord through the whole of His life, death, and resurrection, that their testimony to Him might be sure.
- 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)
- None