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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 10:43 → Isaiah 33:24

Allusion

Later text

Acts 10:43BSB

All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”

Earlier text

Isaiah 33:24BSB

And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Isaiah 33:22BSB

For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.

Earlier text

Isaiah 55:7BSB

Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 31:34BSB

No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more."

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square14:03

Significance

"All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name" (Acts 10:43). Peter gathers the prophetic witness to a single promise — the forgiveness of iniquity — which Isaiah set at the heart of the coming reign of the divine King: the people who dwell in Zion "will be forgiven their iniquity" (Isaiah 33:24; cf. 55:7; Jeremiah 31:34). What the prophets promised as the mark of the last days, when the LORD Himself would be judge, lawgiver, and king who saves (Isaiah 33:22), is now offered concretely: forgiveness through the name of Jesus. The connection is promise-fulfillment — the prophetic hope of pardon reaching every believer — and it is the note on which Peter's sermon breaks open the Spirit upon the Gentiles (Acts 10:44). Here the tension of God's justice and mercy finds its resolution: the God who will by no means clear the guilty clears them justly through the atoning name of His Son.

Found via: G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment