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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 26:22 → Isaiah 42:6

Allusion

Later text

Acts 26:22BSB

But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

Earlier text

Isaiah 42:6BSB

"I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Isaiah 53:10BSB

Yet it was the LORD's will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

Significance

Paul insists his message is nothing new: "I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen: that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles" (Acts 26:22-23). The program is Isaiah's Servant, whom the LORD appoints "to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations" (Isaiah 42:6) and who suffers for the transgression of God's people (Isaiah 53). Paul's whole defense is that the gospel fulfills Moses and the prophets rather than departing from them. The suffering-then-light pattern is the Servant's, realized in the crucified and risen Christ, who is himself the covenant and the light now offered to Jew and Gentile alike — the Servant God gave to be, in his own person, the covenant for his people.

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

▸ Behold My Servant

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Isaiah 42:1-9 — Behold My Servant

Acts 26:22 → Isaiah 42:6

Significance

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