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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 2:5 → Joel 1:2

Echo

Later text

Acts 2:5BSB

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.

Earlier text

Joel 1:2BSB

Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 2:25BSB

This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you."

Significance

Luke notes that dwelling in Jerusalem were “God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven” (Acts 2:5) — the diaspora regathered for the feast, a living map of the scattered covenant people. The phrase “under heaven” recalls the sweep of the nations (Deuteronomy 2:25) and Joel’s summons to “all who dwell in the land” to hear the word of the LORD (Joel 1:2). The detail is not incidental to Luke’s design: the very people scattered among the nations in judgment are gathered to hear, each in his own tongue, “the wonders of God” (2:11). Redemptive history turns here — the ingathering of dispersed Israel becomes the launching-point for the gospel’s outward movement to “the ends of the earth” (1:8). What began as the feast-pilgrimage of a scattered people becomes the first act of the nations’ ingathering into the one people of the risen Christ.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression