Later text
Acts 13:17BSB
The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.
Intertextuality Pair
Acts 13:17 → Exodus 6:1
Allusion
Earlier text
Exodus 6:1BSB
But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for because of My mighty hand he will let the people go; because of My strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
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Earlier text
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
Earlier text
1 Samuel 7:6BSB
When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
Earlier text
Isaiah 1:2BSB
Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: "I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
Significance
Paul begins his synagogue sermon with the God who acts: "The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land" (Acts 13:17). The language is the exodus confession — God's promise that "because of My mighty hand he will let the people go" (Exodus 6:1), and His outstretched arm of redemption (Deuteronomy 4:37; Psalms 136:12). Paul rehearses this founding deliverance as the first movement of a single story that runs through wilderness, conquest, judges, and David to its climax in Jesus. The connection is redemptive-historical: the exodus is not merely past event but paradigm — God's saving act that grounds the covenant and prefigures the greater redemption. As the LORD once brought Israel out of Egypt to serve Him, so now He brings the true Israel out of bondage to sin through the risen Christ, that His people, delivered, might worship Him.
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- Reference Type
- Allusion
- Connection Method(s)
- Redemptive-Historical Progression