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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 10:38 → 1 Samuel 10:1

Echo

Later text

Acts 10:38BSB

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

Earlier text

1 Samuel 10:1BSB

Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over His inheritance?

Significance

This is a thematic/background connection, not the load-bearing warrant for Acts 10:38. Peter's statement that "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power" (echrisen) draws its formal force from Isaiah 61:1 (Jesus' own programmatic text, Luke 4:18-21) — see the separately built `Acts 10.38 → Isaiah 61.1` pair, which carries the CRITICAL warrant. Samuel's anointing of Saul with the horn of oil (1 Sam 10:1) belongs to the same canon-wide anointing motif — the oil-sign installing an office, on which the Spirit then "rushes" — and so it stands in the background of the "Anointed One" vocabulary Peter invokes, but 1 Sam 10:1 does not supply the citation Acts 10:38 reflects and is not listed in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge register for Acts 10:38 (which points to Isa 61, Ps 45, Isa 11/42, Ps 2). It is retained here as a Longitudinal-Theme background pair for the anointing trajectory, with the primary warrant reassigned to Isaiah 61:1.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (thematic; no direct-quotation warrant)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme (Spirit / anointing)

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