Later text
Acts 4:24BSB
When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
Intertextuality Pair
Acts 4:24 → Exodus 20:11
Allusion
Earlier text
Exodus 20:11BSB
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
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Earlier text
Isaiah 42:5BSB
This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
Earlier text
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor and the day of our God's vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,
Earlier text
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”
Significance
The church opens its prayer by naming God "Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them" — the standing biblical confession of God as Creator, drawn from the creation-clause of the Sabbath command (Exod 20:11) and echoed across the prophets (Isa 42:5) and the great penitential prayers (Neh 9:6; Dan 9). This is not decoration but the ground of their confidence: the God who made all things rules over Herod, Pilate, the nations, and the Sanhedrin, so their threats cannot thwart His purpose. Christ-terminus: the Creator's unrivaled sovereignty guarantees the triumph of the gospel and the vindication of the crucified Servant — the same God who fashioned heaven and earth has raised and exalted Jesus, and He grants His servants boldness to speak in a world He wholly owns.
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- G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
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- Allusion
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- Longitudinal Theme
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