Later text
Acts 13:18BSB
He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
Intertextuality Pair
Acts 13:18 → Exodus 16:35
Allusion
Earlier text
Exodus 16:35BSB
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
+ 3 more earlier texts
Earlier text
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
Earlier text
and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place."
Earlier text
Psalms 95:10BSB
For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways."
Significance
"He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness" (Acts 13:18). The forty years are firmly fixed in Israel's memory — the span in which "the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle" (Exodus 16:35; cf. Numbers 14:33-34; Deuteronomy 1:31; Psalms 95:10). Paul folds this era of divine patience into his survey: God bore with a murmuring people, sustaining them with bread from heaven even as they provoked Him. The connection is redemptive-historical, one stage in the story leading to Christ, and it carries a pastoral edge for Paul's hearers — the God who endured their conduct is patient still, but the wilderness generation that hardened its heart did not enter the rest. The manna that fed them points beyond itself to the true bread from heaven (John 6:32), and the rest they forfeited is offered again in the greater Joshua.
- Found via
- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
- Reference Type
- Allusion
- Connection Method(s)
- Redemptive-Historical Progression
Related Anchor-Text Networks
▸ Manna
Linked Mentions 1