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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 16:36 → Judges 18:6

Echo

Later text

Acts 16:36BSB

The jailer informed Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. Now you may go on your way in peace.”

Earlier text

Judges 18:6BSB

And the priest told them, “Go in peace. The LORD is watching over your journey.”

Significance

The jailer's parting word to Paul and Silas — "Now you may go on your way in peace" (Acts 16:36) — reproduces a stock Septuagintal blessing found across the OT narratives, as when the priest dismisses the Danites, "Go in peace" (Judges 18:6). The phrase is idiomatic biblical Greek rather than a deliberate allusion to Judges; Luke's ear is simply steeped in Scripture's language. Its quiet irony is worth noting: the peace pronounced by pagan magistrates over released prisoners is a shadow of the true peace Paul preaches — peace with God through the Lord Jesus (Romans 5:1), which no prison can hold and no magistrate can grant. The whole Philippian episode moves from an earthquake to a household baptized in joy, so that "peace" becomes, in the gospel, far more than a formula.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None