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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 1:8 → Isaiah 32:15

Echo

Later text

Acts 1:8BSB

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

Earlier text

Isaiah 32:15BSB

until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

Significance

Jesus' promise that the disciples "will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you" (Acts 1:8) echoes the eschatological promise of Isa 32:15: "until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high" (ye'areh 'aleinu ruach mimmarom). Isaiah 32:15 initiates a remarkable transformation passage where the Spirit's outpouring converts wilderness to fruitful field and restores justice and righteousness in the land — the Spirit's power thus issues in covenant-community transformation, precisely what Acts 2-28 narrates. The verbal parallel from on high (mimmarom / ex hypsous in LXX; cf. Luke 24:49 where Jesus promises the Spirit as "power from on high") confirms that Luke consistently frames Pentecost through Isa 32:15 and related texts (Isa 44:3; Joel 2:28-29).

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): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Elisha (Double Portion of Spirit) Trajectory Table