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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Acts 10:38 → Isaiah 61:1

Allusion

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

Isaiah 61:1BSB

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:34

Significance

Peter's summary of Jesus' ministry — "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" — condenses Isa 61:1 into a narrative statement. The Isaiah passage opens with "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me (mashach) to preach good news to the poor... to bind up the brokenhearted... to proclaim liberty to the captives." Jesus himself identified this as his programmatic text in Luke 4:18-21, declaring "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." Peter's use of it in Acts 10:38 carries the same programmatic force: the anointing (echrisen) of Jesus is the Isa 61 anointing, and his healing ministry among those "oppressed by the devil" fulfills the release of captives Isa 61:1 promised. The present passage is thus distinct from Acts 10:38 to 1 Sam 10:1, which focuses on the Saul typology of anointing a king; this connection focuses on the prophetic-servant anointing of Isa 61.

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

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Acts 10:38 → Isaiah 61:1

Significance

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