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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 14:10-14 → Ezekiel 2:1

Echo

Later text

Acts 14:10-14BSB

In a loud voice Paul called out, “Stand up on your feet!” And the man jumped up and began to walk. When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices in the Lycaonian language: “The gods have come down to us in human form!” Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker. The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, hoping to offer a sacrifice along with the crowds. But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul found out about this, they tore their clothes and rushed into the crowd, shouting,

Earlier text

Ezekiel 2:1BSB

“Son of man,” He said to me, “stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.”

Significance

At Lystra Paul calls out to the man lame from birth, "Stand up on your feet!" (Acts 14:10), and the wording coincides exactly with the LORD's summons to the prophet, "stand up on your feet" (Ezekiel 2:1). The overlap is a faint verbal echo rather than an appeal to Ezekiel's meaning: Luke is narrating a healing, not interpreting the prophetic call, and the parallel likely runs through a shared Septuagintal idiom. What theological weight it carries is only the broad biblical pattern that God's word raises the fallen to stand. The healing is itself a sign that the God the apostles preach is the living Creator (Acts 14:15), so that a man set on his feet becomes a summons to Lystra to turn from idols to the God who gives life.

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson (eds.), Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (2007)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy (the commissioning word that stood Ezekiel on his feet, which the risen Jesus speaks to Paul at Acts 26:16, now spoken through Paul to a man who had never walked)