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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 26:16 → Ezekiel 2:1-4

Allusion

Later text

Acts 26:16BSB

‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.

Earlier text

Ezekiel 2:1-4BSB

“Son of man,” He said to me, “stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.” And as He spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and I heard Him speaking to me. “Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me. They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:31

Significance

The risen Jesus' command to Paul "But get up and stand on your feet" (anastēthi kai stēthi epi tous podas sou) directly echoes Ezek 2:1-2, where God commands the prostrate prophet: "He said to me, 'Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you'" ('amōd 'al-ragléka we'adaber 'itak). Both scenes follow a visionary encounter that leaves the recipient prostrate; both involve an immediate divine command to rise preceding a prophetic commission. The structural parallel positions Paul as a new Ezekiel-like prophet commissioned by the glorified divine presence — though the commission now comes not from the throne-chariot vision but from the risen Christ. The further elements of the commission in Acts 26:16-18 (appointment as witness, mission to both Jews and Gentiles, promised rescue from enemies) elaborate the Ezekielian prophetic call pattern in Christological terms.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology (Providential Type, Backward-Looking) + Analogy