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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Acts 4:24 → Psalms 146:6

Quotation

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.

Earlier text

Psalms 146:6BSB

the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:47

Significance

The community's prayer in Acts 4:24 opens with the divine address "Sovereign Lord, You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them" (ho poiēsas ton ouranon kai tēn gēn kai tēn thalassan kai panta ta en autois), which is a verbatim citation of the LXX of Ps 146:6 (ton poiēsanta ton ouranon kai tēn gēn kai tēn thalassan kai panta ta en autois). This Creator-descriptor functions as a theological foundation for the petition: if God is sovereign Creator, then the threatening rulers (Acts 4:26-27) are acting within God's sovereign decree rather than against it. The prayer then cites Ps 2:1-2 (Acts 4:25-26) and identifies the current situation as the fulfillment of Psalm 2's scenario, so that the Ps 146:6 Creator affirmation grounds confidence that the same God who controls all creation also controls the "raging nations" Ps 2 addresses.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression