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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 2:39 → Isaiah 57:19

Allusion

Later text

Acts 2:39BSB

This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

Earlier text

Isaiah 57:19BSB

bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near," says the LORD, "and I will heal them."

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square14:02

Significance

Peter's promise that the gift of the Holy Spirit is "for all who are far off" (pasi tois eis makran) closely echoes Isa 57:19's divine promise of peace "to the far [rachoq] and to the near." The same Isaianic phrase reappears in Eph 2:13-17 where Paul makes explicit what Peter implies: "But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ... He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near" (Eph 2:13, 17). Acts 2:39 thus situates the Pentecost promise within the Isaianic new covenant framework of universal inclusion: the Spirit is not only for Jews present in Jerusalem but for Gentiles at geographic and covenantal distance. The phrase "all whom the Lord our God will call" (Acts 2:39b) further grounds the universal offer in divine election, matching Isa 57:19's context of God as healer of his people.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme