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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 2:36 → 1 Samuel 7:2

Echo

Later text

Acts 2:36BSB

Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”

Earlier text

1 Samuel 7:2BSB

And from that day a long time passed, twenty years in all, as the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim. And all the house of Israel mourned and sought after the LORD.

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Earlier text

Ezekiel 37:11BSB

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

Earlier text

Psalms 132:10BSB

For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.

Significance

Peter concludes his sermon with a solemn national summons: “Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ” (Acts 2:36). The phrase “all the house of Israel” is an Old Testament formula for the covenant nation gathered as one (e.g., 1 Samuel 7:2, when “all the house of Israel mourned and sought after the LORD”; Ezekiel 37:11). Peter addresses the whole people with the whole claim: the crucified Jesus is now installed as Lord (the enthroned one of Psalm 110) and Christ (the anointed King and Priest). Redemptive history reaches its appointed climax — the long story of Israel narrows to a single verdict every Israelite must render about one Man. The summons is not merely informational but confrontational: to know “for certain” who Jesus is leaves no neutral ground, and the very next verse shows its intended fruit — hearts pierced, and three thousand turning to call on His name.

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson (eds.), Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression