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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 3:12-13 → Isaiah 52:13

Allusion

Later text

Acts 3:12-13BSB

And when Peter saw this, he addressed the people: "Men of Israel, why are you surprised by this? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.

Earlier text

Isaiah 52:13BSB

Behold, My Servant will prosper; He will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:40

Significance

Peter's sermon at Solomon's Colonnade opens with the declaration: "The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus" (edoxasen ton paida autou Iēsoun). The verb edoxasen ("has glorified") and the title pais ("servant") together invoke Isa 52:13 (LXX: ho pais mou... doxasthēsetai sphodra = "my servant will be greatly glorified"). This is the same Servant passage underlying Jesus' own "lifting up" and "glorification" sayings in John (3:14; 12:23, 32), and Peter deploys it in Acts 3 to interpret the healing of the lame man: the power that healed him flowed from the glorified Servant who was handed over and denied (3:13b), then raised (3:15). The contrast between human rejection and divine glorification structurally mirrors Isa 52:13–53:3 (Servant exalted by God, despite being despised by people), making Acts 3:12-13 an explicit Servant Christology sermon.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment — Christ is the Servant Isaiah foresaw, not a type of the person

▸ The Suffering Servant

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Isaiah 52:13-53:12 — The Suffering Servant

Acts 3:12-13 → Isaiah 52:13

Significance

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