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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 2:40 → Genesis 46:27

Echo

Later text

Acts 2:40BSB

With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”

Earlier text

Genesis 46:27BSB

And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob's family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 32:5BSB

His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

Earlier text

Psalms 78:8BSB

Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Earlier text

Psalms 12:7BSB

You, O LORD, will keep us; You will forever guard us from this generation.

Significance

Peter’s climactic appeal — “Be saved from this corrupt generation!” (Acts 2:40) — draws on the Song of Moses, which indicted Israel as “a warped and crooked generation” (Deuteronomy 32:5; cf. Psalm 78:8). The very people who counted themselves Abraham’s seed (the seventy who went down to Egypt, Genesis 46:27, grown into a nation) are now addressed as a generation under judgment, sharing the wilderness generation’s rebellious heart. The echo makes the summons sharp: physical descent from the patriarchs saves no one; each hearer must be rescued out of a condemned generation by turning to the crucified and risen Christ. Salvation is thus both deliverance from — from the coming judgment on covenant-breakers — and deliverance into the Spirit-filled community of the last days. The call presses the urgency of the gospel: not to reform a crooked generation from within, but to be saved out of it into the people God is now gathering to Himself.

Found via: Albert Barnes, Notes on the Bible (1834)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy