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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 13:26 → Psalms 107:20

Echo

Later text

Acts 13:26BSB

Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

Earlier text

Psalms 107:20BSB

He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:21

Significance

"It is to us that this message of salvation has been sent" (Acts 13:26). Paul's phrase, the word of this salvation sent, takes up a rich Old Testament motif of God's sent, effectual word — "He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit" (Psalms 107:20). God's word does not return empty but accomplishes His saving purpose (Isaiah 55:11). By analogy, the gospel Paul proclaims is that same living word now sent to the sons of Abraham and to God-fearing Gentiles alike. The connection carries the weight of the sermon: the word that once healed and rescued Israel has come near in its fullness, for the Word Himself has been sent — Christ, in whom salvation is not merely announced but embodied and given to all who believe.

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): Analogy