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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 11:22 → Genesis 20:8

Echo

Later text

Acts 11:22BSB

When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

Earlier text

Genesis 20:8BSB

Early the next morning Abimelech got up and summoned all his servants; and when he described to them all that had happened, the men were terrified.

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Isaiah 5:9BSB

I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

Significance

"When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch" (Acts 11:22). Luke's phrasing follows a Scripture-shaped idiom in which a report is carried and stirs a response, as when Abimelech "described to them all that had happened, and the men were terrified" (Genesis 20:8; cf. Isaiah 5:9). The turn of speech marks the continuity of the church's story with Israel's. The connection is a matter of septuagintal style rather than theological trajectory; its modest significance is that the report of God's work among the Gentiles travels, and the mother church responds by sending Barnabas — the gospel's advance drawing the whole people of God into its widening circle.

Found via: G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None