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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 4:12 → Isaiah 47:15

Echo

Later text

Acts 4:12BSB

Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

Earlier text

Isaiah 47:15BSB

This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.

+ 2 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Psalms 146:3BSB

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

Earlier text

Psalms 3:3BSB

But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

Significance

Peter's confession that "salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12) sets the one saving Name against every counterfeit refuge. Isaiah 47:15 pronounces the doom of Babylon's sorcerers and merchants: in the day of trouble "each wanders his own way; there is no one to save you." The Psalter drives the same contrast — trust not in princes, "in mortal man, who cannot save" (Ps 146:3), for the LORD alone is "a shield about me, the lifter of my head" (Ps 3:3). Where the nations pile up saviors who fail, God narrows salvation to a single Name — not to impoverish hope but to fix it on a Savior who cannot fail. The exclusivity of Christ is good news to the helpless: the one Name that saves is the one Name that endures, and He is freely offered to all who call.

Found via: G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Contrast