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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 3:15 → Exodus 6:14

Echo

Later text

Acts 3:15BSB

You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.

Earlier text

Exodus 6:14BSB

These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Judges 11:6BSB

“Come,” they said, “be our commander, so that we can fight against the Ammonites.”

Earlier text

Micah 1:13BSB

Harness your chariot horses, O dweller of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:25

Significance

Peter drives home the great reversal: “You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead” (Acts 3:15). The title archegos means pioneer, founder, prince, or head — the one who originates and leads a people (a sense the Greek Old Testament attaches to the “heads” of Israel’s fathers’ houses, Exodus 6:14). Applied to Jesus it is stunning: the crowd put to death the very Source and Prince of life itself, the one from whom all life flows. The paradox is the gospel in miniature — life’s Author submitting to death, and death unable to hold Him. Because He is the archegos, His resurrection is no private escape but a pioneering breakthrough: He leads the way through death into life, opening the path for all who follow Him. The One they killed is the Prince who now grants repentance and life to His killers, that they too may share the life of which He is the source.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy