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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 → Joel 2:28-29

Allusion

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

Joel 2:28-29BSB

And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

+ 3 more earlier texts

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.

Earlier text

Isaiah 32:1BSB

Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice.

Earlier text

Ezekiel 39:29BSB

And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD."

Significance

Jesus’ promise, “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses” (Acts 1:8), is the pledge Pentecost fulfills — the outpouring Joel foresaw: “I will pour out My Spirit on all people” (Joel 2:28-29). What the Old Testament reserved for prophets, priests, and kings is now promised to all the LORD’s servants, sons and daughters, menservants and maidservants alike. Isaiah joined the same hope to the renewal of the land (“until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high,” Isaiah 32:15) and Ezekiel to the gift of a new heart (Ezekiel 39:29). Luke gathers these promises into one: the Spirit poured out constitutes the new-covenant community, marked no longer by ethnic descent but by Spirit-wrought faith and witness to Christ. The power given is not for spectacle but for testimony — the Spirit’s whole aim is to make the risen Jesus known to the ends of the earth.

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

▸ I Will Pour Out My Spirit

Linked Mentions 4

Trajectory Tables 3

Anchor Texts 1

Joel 2:28-32 — I Will Pour Out My Spirit

Acts 1:8 → Joel 2:28-29

Significance

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